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"...if books were more useful..." ...[great pause]... I am not capable of replying in a way to meaningfully improve your outlook in life. Good luck to you sir

• nils-m-holm 10y ago
  I get his point, though. At the moment I'm guiding my goddaughter through her first term at university, so I'm reading a lot, and I have to say that the average textbook can be condensed to 10% of its volume without any loss of information. It's a terrible waste of time, even if you are only scanning the texts. Please don't get me wrong: I love reading in general.
  • ivan_ah 10y ago
    > the average textbook can be condensed to 10% of its volume without any loss of information It's crazy isn't it? I wrote a math & physics textbook[1] that condenses nearly 2000+ pages of precalculus, mechanics, and calculus, in very few pages. I think I could make it even shorter, but I wanted to include lots of exercises/problems because those are important. [1] https://minireference.com/ https://minireference.com/ see extended preview here https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide_v5_preview.pdf https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide_v5_previ...