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A new semester’s just begun. Never forget this guy. (lemmy.today)
submitted 9 months ago by lars@lemmy.today to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 56 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Genuinely, that's less than 200 books lmao. That guy didn't deserve this

[–] Vertelleus@sh.itjust.works 54 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The real crime is the price the university is selling textbooks for.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

More like professors who require their own published book for their class gouged to oblivion lol.

[–] Vertelleus@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago

This might come down to the university not paying them enough...

[–] DannyMac@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Sadly, it's most likely Barnes & Noble Education since most universities have outsourced their bookstores to them. At least my university now offers free textbooks to students but Barnes & Noble Education runs the logistics of it.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

When I was putting myself through school, I could never afford any of the textbooks. I pretty much lived in the school library for mid-terms and finals. It sucked. When most kids were studying at home, I'd have to camp out in the library because it's the only place that I had access to the textbooks. If a particular class didn't have their textbook available in the library then I couldn't take that class. This was before Bit Torrent, so piracy and PDFs weren't available options.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Probably sold those books to another bookstore for 38 cents.

[–] trucy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

markiplier

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[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

How much of that value was the books and how much was the police?

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

F

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago

Pearson can choke on a bag of dicks.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

So like 2 texts?