Like, I knew of the us higher education industrial complex and how shitty it was. I assumed it was normal shitty, like everything else in this country.
Chat, I just had to pay 60 American dollars to rent a PDF and even once I resigned myself to pay I had to:
- create an account in Macmillan's shit website, which involved rejecting cookies like five times
- Enter my address, which was required but also the address field was not working so I had to start over several times and on different browsers. For a PDF. That I paid $60 so they would email me the "access" link
- Wait for them to email me the link, which took hours. For an automated email to a link to a PDF file
- Find that the link is actually to create a new account on a third party application.
- Get a message that the link expired (it was just sent??) and request a new link.
- Create the stupid account to finally be able to click on a link to open a PDF file on my browser.
- But what if I need to read this literally anywhere else? Well I'll just click the link to "read offline"
- Which has me scan a QR code to download an app on my phone, which also requires an account
- I don't see a way to actually read this on my e-reader?? Offline?? In what world is "read offline" the same as "read on your phone with Internet access"
I fucking hope my professor is getting Macmillan kickbacks because there's literally no other explanation for this
