Essay: Textbook alternatives

The college textbook is a lumbering beast – an outdated, inaccessible mass of confusion that leaves students and their teachers completely overwhelmed – and as we've suspected for years, students simply do not read them, if, in fact, they can afford to purchase them in the first place. These alternative formats take time to collate, granted, and the lure of remaining with the same textbook through is strong, but by collating assigned readings personally, faculty will save themselves time and effort in the long run.