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JP:
Course packets were ridiculous. Most of the profs would put them in the reserve section of my school's library, meaning instead of loaning it for a few weeks you could take it on loan for a few hours. I thought that was pretty good, sometimes you'd need to wait for somebody else to be done with it but for the most part I had enough other work to keep me busy while waiting.
elcapitan:
--- Quote from: lordjim ---worst of all books that fall apart.
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Damn straight. My copy of Adams' Calculus: A Complete Course literally fell apart after about a semester worth of moderate usage - you can see it in that picture, held together with duct tape. Advanced Engineering Mathematics stood up well enough, but we'll see how that goes when I do PDEs next year.
yipjumpmusic:
I love the old book returning where they say, "A quarter for that one." Oh hell yeah!
fortheabsurd:
--- Quote from: siobhan ---drives me crazy.. !
i bet that 'edition change' involved a couple new words and some new pretty pictures.. sometimes i have this desire to rid the world of arrogant academics
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Haha! You wish it involved pretty pictures, a friend of mine who used to be in the publishing business confessed to me that what they actually do is change the order of some of the chapters and say it's "improved and updated." As for my textbooks, I'm soooo happy now that I'm a junior and an English Major. My first two years I was spending like four or five hundred on books but this year most of my classes are lit or writing classes so all of my books are mainly novels. 272 in all for my books, oh yeah, and I'm keeping all of my novels because who doesn't like African novels and random Russian literature? Soo excited about the large chunk of Pushkin and Tolstoy I get to read next year (and they actually call reading that stuff work). Am I aware that I'm a comlete dork? Yes, yes I am.
normz:
don't worry for the absurd .... i devour 100 page cases and law text books like they were comics ..... i actually do the recoomended extra reading and enjoy it (yeah i know that i really should get a life or something)
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