Zero Effort

It must be hard to write a textbook. You have to collect the most up-to-date info, review it then hammer it into a readable format that doesn’t result in the reader continually waking up with their face in a sticky puddle of drool. If it’s actually entertaining this is seen as something of a hidden bonus; an easter egg, if you will.

One cannot object to academics publishing books – its what they’re here for. Likewise one can’t begrudge them the right to then whore promote them as best they can.

However, contempt should be drawn when an otherwise useless textbook is made mandatory for a course by the addition of two pages (yes, just two) of unprocessed data for the use in a compulsory assignment.

TWO FREEKING PAGES ARGHEGGHBLARGH!!1!

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