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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents (fortune.com)

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[–] SynAcker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The text book industry inflated the cost of everything by making things huge, with mostly meaningless full color pictures everywhere. Go back 100 years and compare the size of a math book to present day. Math hasn't changed a whole lot but the size and weight of the books certainly has.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

I have a few college "textbooks" from the 1930's. They're small