[VanDeKoik]

I’ve skirted by many times by just making audio recordings of the lectures (being 1997 this was no easy feat, kids), and fudging the rest the best I could by going to the school store and skimming the chapters while pretending to shop. It worked pretty well.

[SamAdams76]

My youngest son is still a college student and he reports that they won't even let you into the classroom without the approved textbook. You can record the lectures and you can refer to older textbooks to your heart's content. But without the overpriced "latest and greatest edition" (for that class only), you will not be allowed in the door.

This is one of the biggest scams going.

[bgill]

We had to record lectures 20 years before that when they ran out of textbooks for some science class. That meant I could sleep during that 7:30 AM class and review the tape later!