Coursepack, indeed - if only the bookstore had given me more than 2 days notice that they'd be unable to procure several (!) of the texts that I'd ordered. Instead, I'm scanning and posting and photocopying and passing my way through the term.

And that really does sound like a miracle machine - do you mean loose pages, or bound? Because it really was the manual part that was time consuming and annoying (though the pressing the book firmly onto the glass was no prize, either.