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His company hosts a large part of the biggest library ever existed: Internet.
by tanilama 9y ago
His company hosts a large part of the biggest library ever existed: Internet.
- icebraining 9y agoAnd public libraries are used to access it, so you could say the suggestion makes even more sense considering that.
- EliRivers 9y agoYet if I want to make a serious study of something, I hit the textbooks. The internet is, in my experience, a poor replacement for a stack of well written physical textbooks. The internet may be a big library, but in many ways it's not a very good one.
- icebraining 9y agoAlternatively, that could be an argument for digitalizing those textbooks and offering them for free. Maybe Bezos should fund Libgen :)
- EliRivers 9y agoI can't speak for anyone else, but every textbook I used during a master's in maths was available on the screen in front of me. I used paper textbooks instead. They're simply much better for serious learning.
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- sol_remmy 9y agoCounterpoint: My friends all went through mechanical engineering WITHOUT reading textbooks - that was the secret to their success. No one is going to touch the textbooks in a library.
- EliRivers 9y agoDid a master's in maths with the internet in front of me the whole time. Learned almost entirely from textbooks on my desk. The internet was useful for discussing problems and ordering books from the local library. The secret to my success was reading the textbooks and working through them. Had perhaps twenty days of formal instruction throughout, but when I added up the hours spent it was effectively me and the books for a time equal to eight months' full-time. Couldn't have done it without simply hitting the books. Can't speak for your chums. Maybe they learned in classes or lectures or practical sessions or some such. For me, it was hitting the books.
- goialoq 9y agoHow did MechE's succeed before the Internet?
- sol_remmy 9y agoHaha - my friends dad also did MechE in the 80s. He says MechE students now are responsible for learning much more material. I'd say the internet has allowed more material to be taught in four years.
- jogjayr 9y agoCounter-counter point. My wife went through a graphic design degree without ever buying a textbook (many of which were required for class). She borrowed them from our local library, leveraging the inter-library loan system when needed. It saved her hundreds of $$
- Thrymr 9y agoIt's sort of like a library, except that you have to pay to read any of the books.
- tanilama 9y agoThere is countless literature you can find on any subjects on the internet.