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kazagistar on April 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Textbook manifesto (2016)

The only time we had to use a professor written paperback textbook the quality was abysmal and the layout unusable.

lvh on April 10, 2017 [–]

I don't have any data to objectively support the textbook quality, but overall I generally preferred them to standard textbooks. Perhaps how common it is impacts quality.

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