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    college textbooks. have to have the latest edition for class, but almost nothing is different from the two-years-old one.

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      I once had a professor who gave assignments with the last several editions page numbers because he thought it was bullshit too.

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        in roughly half of my classes; my professors were the authors of the of the books that they were selling so they made photocopies of them to distribute to the student for free.

        it was one of two benefits to attending the largest university in the country (at the time).

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        For my classes, anything that was graded was not done from the textbook it was either online questions or from a worksheet. Any work given from the textbook was just for our practice and not graded. They’d usually just call out sections of questions based on that day’s lesson.

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        I walked my students through where to find the pdf of the text book in the first class after we covered the syllabus.

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      This is why I try, if possible, to find them online for free. That’s been my first step whenever needed. Last time I needed a book and lab access code, it cost a little over $150USD!