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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
Curious. You've described a scenario where the student has some say in the books used in his classes. That sounds so unlike any college situation I've ever seen. Can you say what college has this policy and perhaps how common it might be elsewhere?
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Many arts courses - to name but one example - merely specify that one has a text of a particular book. They may recommend a particular edition, but they don't insist upon it. For example, I'm doing a Latin course this year with a British "distance learning" university. The set text for the course is book II of Virgil's "Aeneid"; a specific edition is recommended, but isn't mandatory.
"Technical" courses, OTOH, will generally insist that the student has a particular book.