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My school has a similar custom. Only the students are older (typically in their 20s) and the books are called "dissertations". Oddly, despite being in the libra
by jhbadger 5y ago
My school has a similar custom. Only the students are older (typically in their 20s) and the books are called "dissertations". Oddly, despite being in the library, and the students spending a long time writing them (often years), few people want to read the books.
- Fomite 5y agoOn the other hand, to those who did need them, they were potentially invaluable.
- dtech 5y agoWell those are supposed to be nonfiction, that always is less popular than fiction
- noduerme 5y ago>> supposed to be Unfortunately, there's been a general decline in reading comprehension since the '50s. Things that would have been understood to be fiction are now read as unironic fact. Backwoods literalist christianity and backwoods literalist islam burst on the scene at around the same time that academia embraced a malformed version of deconstructionism. Back in the 90s we were so sick of irony we just wanted it to die. Turns out this is how it happened.