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Open Textbooks Gaining Ground: Flat World in 400 Colleges

• Tichy 17y ago
  "expensive doorstop collections" If the textbooks end up being doorstops, maybe the problem is with the courses, not with the books? I like owning the textbooks from courses I really enjoyed.
  • timwiseman 17y ago
    Or it could be something that simply does not make a good reference. I kept many of my math and computer science text books as references for later. On the other hand, the political science class I took made us read through many books where reading them once was very enlightening, but I have never felt a desire to refer back to them.
• xelfer 17y ago
  Great idea, though I'm wondering if they're offering them in PDF format what's stopping students from paying $1 each and sharing them around?
  • ZeroGravitas 17y ago
    Since they're CC licenced you'd be legally entitled to share them anyway. Has anyone mirrored the books to break them out of the confusing web site?