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Re:Ask HN: How do we build the new remote education system by gibspaulding on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @08:23AM (#25761654)
> These options aren't university classes. They're the next generation of textbooks.

Totally off topic, but if students were already paying $300 for a paper calculus book, I shudder to think of the extortion we'll see over the virtual, multimedia,cloud-optimized, probably-built-in-Adobe-Flash monstrosity that will be the "next generation of textbooks".

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Re:Ask HN: How do we build the new remote education system by asdff on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:07PM (#25765755)
Not to mention the university library has a couple copies of that $300 textbook on reserve for you, so if you were doing your studying at the library anyway there isn't any reason to shell out. I would even take pictures of salient chapters with my phone if I really needed to take the content home.

Online only, there would be no avoiding those mandatory fees. Libraries don't have homework codes on reserve.

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