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I hope this happens for my childrens' sake. (Thankfully, that is a long way away.) In addition to being too heavy to haul around, textbooks are expensive and co
by jaymstr 18y ago
I hope this happens for my childrens' sake. (Thankfully, that is a long way away.) In addition to being too heavy to haul around, textbooks are expensive and constantly outdated, forcing students to sell them for often 10 cents on the dollar. Chegg's textbook rental is great, but this could result in free books with even better and always up to date content.
- gommm 18y agoWhen I was studying in the US, I always bought the previous edition of all textbooks second hand. I quickly figured that they was little difference between editions and they seemed more like a ploy to get us to buy new books... When studying in France, I didn't buy any textbooks and got all of them from the university (a good use of taxes from my point of view :-) )
- jaymstr 18y agoThat works often, but a lot of publishers have a fun little trick where they barely change the content but do change the problem sets.