Noel B

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Noel B @NoelBWrites6/24/2024, 8:52 PM

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Noel B @NoelBWrites6/24/2024, 8:29 PM

Hey if you're a university professor in the US and make the mandatory textbook for your course:

Latest edition, which means it's hard or impossible to get used
A book that has no digital edition
A book you don't bother requesting from the university library so they actually have copies of the last stupid edition

Then you're going to hell

("But what if the latest edition is necessary because of new information??" Then fucking print the new information and pass it around in class, this isn't hard. "What if the latest edition is just much better explained?" Then?? Do your job??? As an instructor??? Explain the thing in a better way??)

#This rant brought to you by: we're already strapped for cash I can't afford to pay hundreds of dollars for a book I'll use for all of five weeks #Noel's adventures in college

Noel B @NoelBWrites6/24/2024, 8:52 PM

So anyway, uhhh any specific place you guys acquire textbooks? Zlib does not have the latest edition

#textbook #US education #furthermore capitalism must be destroyed #I swear to God literally every aspect of existing in this country is unnecessarily expensive and painful

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Parker Posey's Mouth @AllisonIsLivid6/24/2024, 8:35 PM

Fun thing you can do as a professor, TA, or other talking head leading a lecture: Have the latest edition with the explanations yourself, and use the new stuff to teach the folks with the affordable used previous edition books! YOU buy the new one, and SUPPLEMENT the old one with the new stuff you had to have!!

Noel B @NoelBWrites6/24/2024, 8:49 PM

Right? It doesn't have to be the worst possible situation for everyone!

NekoRaita @NekoRaita6/24/2024, 8:44 PM

at least your professor don't tell you to "ask GPT about it" ahahahahahahah I love computer science hahhahahahahahahahahahaa I love when teachers don't teach ahahahahahahahahahah

Noel B @NoelBWrites6/24/2024, 8:48 PM

Ahhh it's great because we're sure not paying for education!!!

multioculate @multioculate6/25/2024, 12:12 PM

Doublehell for professors whose textbook is a 80$ paperback of collected essays... that they happen to be the editor of. In a field that has plenty of other textbooks. And also they mysteriously forgot to tell the library until after the first exam...

Noel B @NoelBWrites6/25/2024, 12:52 PM

The only acceptable way to assign your own book to the class is to give it to every student for free tbh

multioculate @multioculate6/25/2024, 1:56 PM

This is true and honestly in general if you're assigning a textbook, just whoopsy that PDF onto the course page for the first 3 weeks of class

Noel B @NoelBWrites6/25/2024, 2:29 PM

Yup! In general make it as easy and affordable as possible for your students to have the material, most of them are kids and all of them have no money

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mint @mintexists6/24/2024, 8:56 PM

https://annas-archive.org/ might have it, it collects all of the cool shadow libraries like zlib and libgen

crow ✨ JOIN AULDNOIR @giant-crow-from-dark-souls6/24/2024, 8:57 PM

yep came here to suggest anna's archive. it's been great for me for textbooks. :)

Noel B @NoelBWrites6/24/2024, 9:14 PM

thank you! Unfortunately the last edition doesn't seem to be uploaded anywhere... might fuck around and do it myself if I ever get a copy... :/

mint @mintexists6/24/2024, 10:17 PM

good luck :)

graham @graham6/24/2024, 8:56 PM

I used to use Gen lib rus ec with dots between, but I think it shut down since then. It was a compilation of a couple of places, but it's unfortunately been too long since I've looked to remember exactly where. Maybe the wayback machine could help jog my memory though?

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