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[–] bluesheep@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

This study says that 65% of college students reported that they skipped buying or renting a textbook because of cost. I believe they didn’t buy the books, but I’m skeptical that cost is the true reason, as opposed to just the excuse they offer. Yes, I know some texts, especially in the sciences, are expensive. However, the books I assign are low-priced.

All texts combined for one of my courses is between $35-$100 and they still don’t buy them. Why buy what you aren’t going to read anyway? Just google it.

My brother in christ, your course is not the only thing being followed. If that was the case it'd be okay. When I was studying the costs of the books of one of my classes was probably around a hundred bucks as well, but guess what. I had 7 or 8 different classes, every god damn year. Even if you lowball it at 50 bucks a class, that's still 400 bucks you have to pay every year for 4 years. I wasn't paying that shit, long live library genesis.