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The thing that pissed me off when I was in college was the new versions they would come out with. When I was in community college I bought a first edition textbook for one of my classes. When I went to sell it back at the end of the semester they wouldn't take it since a second edition was coming out. A couple of years later I went to a university and they required me to buy the fourth edition of the same book I had bought four years earlier. I forgot about the first edition I had sitting at home until Thanksgiving break. When I got home for Thanksgiving I thought I would compare the books and see what they had updated. All they had done was change the fucking pictures! Every single word of text was exactly the same! Even the captions on the pictures were the same, and the pictures were of the same things on the same pages, the pictures were just different! The review questions at the end of the chapters were the same too! It was an automotive textbook, so the first edition might have a guy working on a Ford, the fourth edition the guy was working on a Toyota. Ridiculous.
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