Comments | mereilin: Sometimes the best you can do is to keep things from getting worse.

mereilin

Sometimes the best you can do is to keep things from getting worse.

Aug 18, 2013 11:47

Yesterday for a couple of glorious hours I had the house ALL TO MYSELF. My husband went out with his siblings to finish cleaning out their late father's apartment, Sadie went to a friend's house for a movie date, and Dan left for a bike ride. I should of course have spent that time getting a jump on my Tuesday deadline, but the sun was shining and ( Read more... )

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seabroth December 12 2013, 16:30:42 UTC

I only buy textbooks if I can't find them online for download already, or available at the library. So I always check Google and uztranslations. Then I can scan pages, take notes, or print them out.

mereilin December 12 2013, 16:37:24 UTC

I do try to avail myself of all the free resources I can get my hands on, but maybe because I predate the Internet age by a generation or so, there's something about a book I can hold in my hands. :)

seabroth December 12 2013, 17:39:18 UTC

My eyesight is really bad, I'm almost blind. So I prefer e-books and e-texts and so on since I can really easily enlarge the size and have an easier time reading. Plus I'm poor so I can't afford books hahah.

When I have a physical textbook, I end up being a bit scared of it for some reason. So if I just have one chapter printed out on paper, or a PDF I can scroll through, it feels less serious and I'm not so scared to dive into it.