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Yes we were. We covered them, scribbled on them, wrote errata in, copied pages for people, ripped out pages, occasionally watched nitric acid dissolve them, acc

by meaty 14y ago

Yes we were. We covered them, scribbled on them, wrote errata in, copied pages for people, ripped out pages, occasionally watched nitric acid dissolve them, accidentally set them on fire, sold them and swapped them for other things and occasionally clunted someone round the head with them.

ceejayoz 14y ago
> We covered them Buy an iPad case. > scribbled on them, wrote errata in Most reading apps have annotations. > copied pages for people Not necessary with digital copies. > ripped out pages, occasionally watched nitric acid dissolve them, accidentally set them on fire Fundamental to your learning experience, I take it? > sold them and swapped them I don't believe these are student-owned textbooks. > occasionally clunted someone round the head with them Hardly a necessary feature.
- meaty 14y ago
  No thanks - sticky back plastic is far more versatile. Annotations with diagrams finely written with pencil or smudged around with a lopping great big finger? Not possible with certain DRM encumbered digital copies. It was more of a point that the iPad wouldn't survive GCSE/A level chemistry or a machine shop for instruction whereas a book would even with minor acid or fire damage. We had to buy our textbooks. I bet that they aren't that generous all of a sudden. Clunting someone with an A level mathematics textbook end on stopped a mugging. If it was an iPad, you'd be the one being mugged (I grew up in a shitty bit of London)
- betterunix 14y ago
  "Not necessary with digital copies." Unless some student loses access to their books because they violated some third-party library's policy about reading their books. I see all sorts of conditions on using electronic books at my university's library -- conditions that are enforced by a service provider, not the university. Sometimes, RMS can be prophetic: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
  - meaty 14y ago
    Agree with this a million times over. I do actually use an e-reader (Kobo touch) but it's been hacked to register and remove any network access possibility and only gets DRM free epubs and PDFs put near it.

by meaty 14y ago

ceejayoz 14y ago

> We covered them Buy an iPad case. > scribbled on them, wrote errata in Most reading apps have annotations. > copied pages for people Not necessary with digital copies. > ripped out pages, occasionally watched nitric acid dissolve them, accidentally set them on fire Fundamental to your learning experience, I take it? > sold them and swapped them I don't believe these are student-owned textbooks. > occasionally clunted someone round the head with them Hardly a necessary feature.

meaty 14y ago
No thanks - sticky back plastic is far more versatile. Annotations with diagrams finely written with pencil or smudged around with a lopping great big finger? Not possible with certain DRM encumbered digital copies. It was more of a point that the iPad wouldn't survive GCSE/A level chemistry or a machine shop for instruction whereas a book would even with minor acid or fire damage. We had to buy our textbooks. I bet that they aren't that generous all of a sudden. Clunting someone with an A level mathematics textbook end on stopped a mugging. If it was an iPad, you'd be the one being mugged (I grew up in a shitty bit of London)
betterunix 14y ago
"Not necessary with digital copies." Unless some student loses access to their books because they violated some third-party library's policy about reading their books. I see all sorts of conditions on using electronic books at my university's library -- conditions that are enforced by a service provider, not the university. Sometimes, RMS can be prophetic: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
- meaty 14y ago
  Agree with this a million times over. I do actually use an e-reader (Kobo touch) but it's been hacked to register and remove any network access possibility and only gets DRM free epubs and PDFs put near it.