jpr703
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I know everyone complains about the cost of college textbooks, but I've got one now that just goes too far. It's called Chemistry, A Molecular Science written by Dennis W. Wetz and is a second edition published by Pearson.
I paid full price for this book, I don't remember exactly how much, but it was comprable to other normal textbooks and this one has a soft cover. Not only that, but the thin pages are spiral bound with a wire and the book opens like a tablet so that the pages go up-to-down instead of left to right. As if that wasn't enough, every single page is perforated at the top, just like notebook paper that you would want to rip out!
Remember, this is not a lab book and there's no reason in the world why you would want to tear the pages out of your text. The publisher obviously did everything they could to ensure that no used copies of this book will ever exist. Short of writing it on flash paper, I'm hard pressed to think of any steps that could have been taken to further reduce the life expectancy of this expensive and required text. I've had mine about three weeks and it's already falling apart.
I expect to be sodomized, at least a little bit, whenever I walk into a college bookstore but this just goes too far!
I paid full price for this book, I don't remember exactly how much, but it was comprable to other normal textbooks and this one has a soft cover. Not only that, but the thin pages are spiral bound with a wire and the book opens like a tablet so that the pages go up-to-down instead of left to right. As if that wasn't enough, every single page is perforated at the top, just like notebook paper that you would want to rip out!
Remember, this is not a lab book and there's no reason in the world why you would want to tear the pages out of your text. The publisher obviously did everything they could to ensure that no used copies of this book will ever exist. Short of writing it on flash paper, I'm hard pressed to think of any steps that could have been taken to further reduce the life expectancy of this expensive and required text. I've had mine about three weeks and it's already falling apart.
I expect to be sodomized, at least a little bit, whenever I walk into a college bookstore but this just goes too far!