the copycenter...

At Stanford we often have to buy "coursereaders" for classes. They're photocopies of articles and excerpts from books that the prof/TA compiles. They're usually ridiculously expensive, supposedly bc of copyright issues. Well, copyright laws don't really exist in egypt. In my history class, the professor has this book he wants us all to read, but it's hard to find in Egypt, and tends to be expensive. So, to make life easier for us, he's put a copy on reserve at the library, and we're meant to take it to the sketchy copy center across the street, and ask them to copy the ENTIRE book for us. The center charges 2 piasters (less than half a cent) per page, so the 500 page book should cost me no more than three dollars. It's sickeningly wonderful.