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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Most of my textbooks are not digital, and they’re filled with post it notes and tabs.

Digital is okay, I’ve got a ton of digital books but they don’t trigger my memory as well.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Uni textbooks are a racket, not a shelf of professional reference material for the workplace.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

Most of my textbooks are legit reference texts, which I do pull out and use as references frequently.

It helps a lot when you have to catch up on a topic you haven’t looked at in 5 years. They also help when I’m trying to teach myself a new topic that wasn’t taught in university.

During COVID springer made a lot of their collection free to download so I pulled a ton of digital texts too.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago

It depends on what the books are and what the reference material is. I'm an accountant, and anything like tax/compliance & standards related is usually digital because of how fast and often it changes. But I still have what you would call textbooks that I reference pretty often. Mostly my Treasury book, or when I'm trying to find a formula for a specific application. Hell I've even been guilty of digging back through my books from my articling period, to find something specific from time to time.