School spyware in coursebooks

Re:School spyware in coursebooks by total on Monday May 26, 2014 @11:54AM (#7800243)

I'm not entirely sure on the specifics of what is allowed, but I know MathXL/MyMathLab has a button for printing when one is reading the textbook online through their site.

[Edit] Cleared up some confusing stuff in there.

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Re:School spyware in coursebooks by wyager on Monday May 26, 2014 @12:14PM (#7800343)

>MyMathLab

Oh god, MyMathLab. The second shittiest piece of software I was ever forced to buy. And at $120, it may have been the lowest value/dollar of any software I've ever interacted with.

Shout out to all the professors who either A) don't use textbooks, and only use free online resources or B) don't make us buy the textbook's shitty online service, so we can just go out and rent/borrow the textbooks for cheap.

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Re:School spyware in coursebooks by Crito on Monday May 26, 2014 @04:38PM (#7801501)

I bet it restricts how often you can do that on a given book.

If not, then "print" the whole damn thing to PDF documents.

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