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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
have you actually BEEN to college? with very few exceptions textbooks are unique and it is impossible to substitute them. ANY hard science book is normally well over $100. history, religion, philosophy, all of the "ology's" are anywhere from 50 to 300
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Well, granted, I graduated from undergrad in '93 and grad school in 2000, so maybe my knowledge isn't 100% up to date. Substitution isn't an option for a lot of classes, I suppose, but if it's history, some form of mathematics, and yes, even some "ology's", the information therein isn't only available in
that textbook, unless the professor is going to be a schmuck and have tests like, "On page 103 of your textbook, what word does the author use to describe...".
The point of a class is to assimilate the information, not to memorize the assigned textbook. I did just fine in grad school and, although I bought all the textbooks required (and still have a few of them), I dobut I even cracked some of them open. I had other ways of learning the material.