Comment by dml2135

Haha what I remember in those cases was that the main value in having the assigned book was being able to same page during class discussions.

I mean, literally the same page — so if someone says “what did ya’ll think about this quote on p.156” I could actually get to it in time instead of scrambling to find the passage in whatever I printed out from Project Guttenberg.

For this reason my strategy to save book money was usually to get the assigned books from the library and camp out in front of the copy machine for an afternoon.