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InfamousICON said:
You're lucky you've never gotten one of them instructors that require the online code that comes with brand new books.

It's a way the textbook companies have gotten around people buying used. For the last couple of years a lot of classes are requiring brand new books because the book comes with a code for a website where you actually submit the work. Colleges are getting kickbacks from the textbook companies so it's becoming more and more of a thing. They even made it so if you already have a used book you can buy just the online access, but it's still crazy fucking expensive for just the online access. They're killing off used books and bootleg pdf books.
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Oh, I have lol. It's my fourth year at the school and luckily this past semester i didnt have one of those, but i fa sho have in prior semesters.

At this point I figure to just spend as little money as possible. we start up again on monday the 13th and i havent gotten my books yet, and dont plan on it unless theres one of those codes, or a professor says the book is absolutely imperative for the class. then again, i had a professor say that this past semester and that he was gonna give us reading quizzes. this nigga gave us one quiz the entire semester and it was four questions and damn near common sense lol.
 
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Those fucking codes would piss me off every time. The absolute worst was when it was required in fucking English 101 and English 102. $100 code just to do easy exercises that were required and were 1/4 of the grade. The majority of the class was outside of that code website on and normal school canvas, but they just had to fuck with us and add that shit in sprinkled on top for no reason whatsoever all like "we're gonna make you pay for something that won't teach you anything with exercises that only take a few minutes to do, but we're gonna make it a massive part of your grade to make sure you pay for it, even though you don't need it."

One of my math classes had that code shit also and all the homework was on a code website, but then my next math class after that the teacher put all the work on a free pdf book for us to print out and just turn in. Kind of tells me the first math class was absolute bullshit and a scam.

Fuck textbook companies.
 
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InfamousICON said:
Her user name is "So Damn Tired". I went through her pictures, she's a suburban white woman in Canada that skis for a hobby. The fuck are you tired from? Too much fake outrage making you sleepy?
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lol that bitch doesn't give a fuck about those dead, she just wants the attention
 
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InfamousICON said:
You're lucky you've never gotten one of them instructors that require the online code that comes with brand new books.

It's a way the textbook companies have gotten around people buying used. For the last couple of years a lot of classes are requiring brand new books because the book comes with a code for a website where you actually submit the work. Colleges are getting kickbacks from the textbook companies so it's becoming more and more of a thing. They even made it so if you already have a used book you can buy just the online access, but it's still crazy fucking expensive for just the online access. They're killing off used books and bootleg pdf books.
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InfamousICON said:
You're lucky you've never gotten one of them instructors that require the online code that comes with brand new books.

It's a way the textbook companies have gotten around people buying used. For the last couple of years a lot of classes are requiring brand new books because the book comes with a code for a website where you actually submit the work. Colleges are getting kickbacks from the textbook companies so it's becoming more and more of a thing. They even made it so if you already have a used book you can buy just the online access, but it's still crazy fucking expensive for just the online access. They're killing off used books and bootleg pdf books.
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yeah thats why i took this one professor i had last quarter, who is kind of annoying and neurotic but he made it a point to use an openstax math book and gave us the pdf for the python book for free. and bam, statistics book was a free pdf and he gave us a free pdf for an older version of the java book, and tailored the homework to be able to use the newer or the old. the previous math class had a book we had to use an online access code to submit all the online homework. even though i had to buy the calc book the homework is all on paper thankfully so no worries about any stupid access codes

the most cancerous thing ever though is professors that require their OWN textbook to be bought at some outrageous price, and tailor the homework and exams to be based on specific things you could only know by taking detailed notes and doing the exercises directly from their book. thankfully i havent run into one of those yet
 
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