Mendeley. Its a citation manager geared towards peer reviewed literature. It has a browser extension that downloads the pdf/ citation, and integrates with word. As you’re typing, you can add in text citations by searching for the author. Then when you’re done, click add bibliography. Boom.. Done. Its made by elsevier. Once you use it, you’ll wonder why you ever added citation by hand/ one at a time.
Church pantries. Free groceries every week/every other week. Just being proof you live in the area
Would you count Wolfram-alpha for maths? And Khan academy for studies.
Always look up your text books online they may have a virtual copy for very, very cheap. You can then use ctrl+F to find certain topics easily during study sessions.
Also e-mail authors of papers and ask if you can have a copy since they usually don’t see the money that you’d pay on a website for them.
If you’re a student in a smallish department, try to start a trend of donating your textbooks to the next year or class for free. Seriously, burn the whole system: photocopy things, pass them for free, post them online (if you can do so securely). If you buy the newest copy, it’s pretty much the same as last two editions with a different format, so make a part of study sessions to find the correlating pieces and put that info our there.
It’s really hard to fight the criminally unfair cost when you’re a tired student, so just do your best to support each other.
Most textbooks can be pirated via torrents, just like everything else. If they’re going to try so hard to fuck you, might as well fuck them right back.