eTextBooks (for kids)

[Yotam Rubin]

In Soviet Russia, book reads YOU.

2009/9/8 Arie Skliarouk <skliarie at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> Needless to say, all books were written by a department in the Ministry of
> Education, and not private author benefited from the authorship.
>
> After all there were some good economy tactics in the socialism that IMHO
> should be applied to capitalism (albeit forcefully)...
>
> --
> Arie
>
>
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