<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br>In socialistic USSR, school books were not bought each year. Instead pupils had to take them from their's school library for the coming year and return them at end of the year. Each book had "worn out" level marked on cover of the book and one had to be careful not to wore out the book too much during the year. As a penalty for lost or unusable book, the student had to buy a new book for the library. To draw or mark text in the book was a big no-no. All books had hard-cover and had strong binding for durability. Every student was required to put the book he got into special plastic boundary. If a course required pupils to draw on printed material (like letters in the first form), the pupil had to buy addendum personal notebook he had to draw in. I remember I used books with 15-20 name-year pairs in it.<br>
<br>Needless to say, all books were written by a department in the Ministry of Education, and not private author benefited from the authorship.<br><br>After all there were some good economy tactics in the socialism that IMHO should be applied to capitalism (albeit forcefully)...<br>
<br clear="all">--<br>Arie<br><br></div>