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You're not afraid you're going to need that UCSD Pascal book from 1986?
by criddell 9mo ago
You're not afraid you're going to need that UCSD Pascal book from 1986?
- bluGill 9mo agoMy physics textbooks look impressive sitting on a bookself even if I never open them again. I only need a few books like that to prove I'm smart though. "I swear someday I will open my calculus textbook again and do all the exercises..."
- criddell 9mo agoIt's fun to find a colleague's collection of Knuth's Art of Computer Programming Books books and open them to hear the crack of a book that's never been opened before.
- throwway120385 9mo agoWe buy them to pay homage to Knuth more than to work through the exercises.
- klatchex_too 9mo agoThat's why if you're a poser like me, you buy them used in poor shape.
- B1FIDO 9mo agoOf course you do! Any student who has read/seen Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince knows: the most dog-eared, worn-out, scribbled-up textbook is the best textbook you could hope for!
- c22 9mo agoI like when there's stuff underlined and scribbled in the margins. You get to see exactly how far the last user got--often just a chapter or two.
- ghaff 9mo agoI've gotten rid of a bunch of books. Don't care a lot so long as they now fit my bookshelves. But will probably dump another bag or two to my library's next book sale next fall.
- ThrowawayR2 9mo agoOof, that's hitting below the belt, man ....