(December 16, 2021 at 4:58 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: In the US the price of a college textbook increased 90% from 1998 to 2016, while recreational book prices fell by more than 35% over the same time period.
When I was at uni, it was common to buy used textbooks, both to save money and because the previous owner would have highlighted or underlined all of the important bits.
One of my flat mates bought an organic chemistry text in which everything, except words like ‘the’, ‘and’, ‘for’, etc had been underlined. He wasn’t half pissed about it.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
