VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 22 days agoThe U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parentsfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up1197arrow-down19
arrow-up1188arrow-down1external-linkThe U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parentsfortune.comVetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square28linkfedilink
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·21 days agoWhen I was in Uni 10 years after you, we all got our textbooks from our peers on a Dropbox that just got passed down from student to student. Took me a few years to figure this out, and saved me a tooon of $$ by not having to buy textbooks. And I always preferred the digital version. So much faster to Ctrl+f or flip back between the appendix and the chapter.
minus-squarehomes@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·21 days agoThat’s what I did for my second undergrad degree and for my masters. Definitely saved a lot of time and money ❤️
When I was in Uni 10 years after you, we all got our textbooks from our peers on a Dropbox that just got passed down from student to student.
Took me a few years to figure this out, and saved me a tooon of $$ by not having to buy textbooks.
And I always preferred the digital version. So much faster to Ctrl+f or flip back between the appendix and the chapter.
That’s what I did for my second undergrad degree and for my masters. Definitely saved a lot of time and money ❤️