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> The nice thing about e-textbooks is not needing to carry around a bunch of heavy books. I remember the tomes I had in my college days, such as Stewart's Calculus.

I'm not sure how relatable this is for people outside of my age group (late millennial), but growing up we used to get chided about stuffing too much in our backpacks and shown presentations about how we were going to give ourselves scoliosis, but then had like two minutes between classes that might be on the other side of the building (meaning no time to stop at our lockers other than at lunch) and we'd get chided even worse if we didn't have our textbooks available for the days we happened to need them in class (which of course we were never told in advance, and some classes had multiple textbooks that wouldn't all get used every time).

I wish that we had iPads or Chromebooks or whatever back when I was in school not even because I would have wanted to have been able to surf the web or play games or whatever, but just to have a solution to having to pick between having a sore back or getting worse scolding (with a side course of hypocrisy either way).

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Which is why you leave your book inside the microwave the teacher might have in the back of the classroom.

People rarely actually use the microwave

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just hint students towards anna's archive and then sky's the limit
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