Among the many things I overhear in the library are requests to photocopy multiple pages from a friend's book, because:
a) the photocopying student lost, forgot, or never obtained his own copy
b) the homework is due tomorrow.
This is very sad, for a whole lot of reasons. Helpless trees have to suffer and die a needless death, and it means wasting electricity on copies, plus the gas it cost to ship the copy paper itself. Stop the madness, people! There's an easier way, and it's totally free.
Project Gutenberg is a website devoted to digitizing and making available the literature of the world for free, in easy-to-download formats. Sometimes multiple editions of the same work or multiple translations are available, and you may not get the exact one you want, but reading any version is better than not reading it at all, especially when that essay is due. Anything that is old enough to be in the public domain will likely appear there, such as Beowulf, the Iliad, or Romeo and Juliet. Your favorite novel may not be there, but that won't help you get the A in AP English - this will. Try it.
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