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by goosedragons 1188 days ago
Most papers aren't free. Sometimes the author(s) will make a preprint or something similar available somewhere but that's not always the case. The expensive books also have a lot of context that's often removed from the papers because it's assumed known by the audience.
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> Most papers aren't free

That's a separate problem. You pay to submit the paper and then people pay to read it.

I really wish we could expand human knowledge without gatekeepers milking both sides