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[-] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago

I remember one class where we literally never cracked open the book. But it was still mandatory to purchase because it had a code to access the online learning tool we had to use for the class.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

My anthropology class had us buy four textbooks all written by the professor.

None of them was used at all during class.

I didn’t buy them, or rent them, or spend any money on them. And then I learned to look at the book author while signing up for classes, since the book(s) is/are usually listed.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

That's something I'd want to take to the dean... But then the prof would just use each book ONCE as a workaround.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I worked for a professor like that.

Apparently the guy had complaints like this for years, forcing students to buy HIS BOOKS. ALL OF THEM.

They don't give a fuck.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

It’s a club, and you ain’t in it - George Carlin

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

This is essentially just stealing from poor college kids. Despicable. I hardly ever bought any media in college (books, CDs, whatever). I spent an incredible amount of time at the school library studying there. I couldn't afford to buy the books. If a book was mandatory then I had to find a different class to fill that slot.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

And it will never be illegal to do that because young people aren’t practically able to be politicians.

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