Hey askastudent,<\/p>\n
First off, let me thank you profoundly for the website, it really has answered a lot of my questions about day to day life at U of T. My question is, are students required to buy the paperback\/hardcovered version of their textbooks? I’m wondering whether or not I can use ebook\/pdf versions of the textbooks (assuming they’re available in the format) to reduce the amount of weight I would have to carry around since I’m already planning to carry around a laptop and I’ve always done my studying using electronic texts so I’d prefer their functionality over actual texts.<\/p>\n
Thanks!<\/p>\n
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Feel free to use whatever textbook you want. I’ve actually been wondering about this – do you have like an eBook\/kindle reader? Are they “en vogue” for university students these days? Askastudent is practically a dinosaur but from what I gather, most textbooks won’t be available except in their weighty, hardcover format. If there is an eBook version, by all means bring your laptop and read along. But if there ain’t, you might have to bring along your textbook for group tutorials and seminars, since you’ll all be reading at the same times and cross referencing the same material. In addition to textbooks, many classes have photocopied readers that you’ll have to bring along. I’d recommend getting a pretty kickass backpack. I like these ones (when did Askastudent turn into a fashion blog\/can people ask me more style questions?).<\/p>\n
Generally textbooks are still an unfortunate reality for college students lives and backs. You’ll get more deets about where to buy your books and readers on the first day of class!<\/p>\n
xoxo, Askastudent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hey askastudent, First off, let me thank you profoundly for the website, it really has answered a lot of my questions about day to day life at U of T. My question is, are students required to buy the paperback\/hardcovered version of their textbooks? I’m wondering whether or not I can use ebook\/pdf versions of the textbooks (assuming they’re available in the format) to reduce the amount of weight I would have to carry around since I’m already planning to carry around a laptop and I’ve always done my studying using electronic texts so I’d prefer their functionality over actual texts. Thanks! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Feel free to use whatever textbook you want. I’ve actually been wondering about this – do you have like an eBook\/kindle reader? Are they “en vogue” for university students these days? Askastudent is practically a dinosaur but from what I gather, most textbooks won’t be available except in their weighty, hardcover format. If there is an eBook version, by all means bring your laptop and read along. But if there ain’t, you might have to bring along your textbook for group tutorials and seminars, since you’ll all be reading at the same times and cross referencing the same material. In addition to textbooks, many classes have photocopied readers that you’ll have to bring along. I’d recommend getting a pretty kickass backpack. I like these ones (when did Askastudent turn into a fashion blog\/can people ask me more style questions?). Generally textbooks are still an unfortunate reality for college students lives and backs. You’ll get more deets about where to buy your books and readers on the first day of class! xoxo, Askastudent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}