I don’t mind at all, but it severely restricts the range of books I can get. For instance, I want a decent probability-theory textbook to go back and learn the subject from scratch, including continuous, calculus-and-measure-based probability as well as the discrete, combinatorics-based stuff I had in undergrad.
Also, if you just send one book at a time, I think customs usually doesn’t bother you.
Depends on the monetary value of the book. If you’re actually mail-ordering something, a receipt gets included and thus usually a customs charge. For textbooks, this is painful.
Get ebook versions, if you don’t mind using them.
Also, if you just send one book at a time, I think customs usually doesn’t bother you.
I don’t mind at all, but it severely restricts the range of books I can get. For instance, I want a decent probability-theory textbook to go back and learn the subject from scratch, including continuous, calculus-and-measure-based probability as well as the discrete, combinatorics-based stuff I had in undergrad.
Actually hunting in an ebook store returns one text that reviews say is really about Markov models, and one really interesting-looking text by Jaynes that I probably don’t have the math background to fully appreciate right now.
Depends on the monetary value of the book. If you’re actually mail-ordering something, a receipt gets included and thus usually a customs charge. For textbooks, this is painful.