Textbooks

Key

Question 1

a) TRUE “there is still a clear correlation between spending on course books and your degree grade”

b) FALSE “[University libraries], they are unlikely to stock enough copies of the most essential reading

c) TRUE “ you don’t need to worry about folding the page corners”

d) TRUE “ But as digital becomes better and better, there will come a point where it is impossible for students to prefer physical – we will see more interaction, more multimedia, video and integration with homework tasks”

Question 2

a) The main advantages of getting second hand books are that they are not as expensive as the new ones; moreover, it is more environmentally-friendly and you need not be so careful with them.

b) CourseSmart is an alternative for students and staff to buy or rent digital books to store them and make them accessible in digital devices.

Question 3

a)       unlikely

b)     set up

c)     device

Question 4

a)       A paper revealing that those who obtained a first-class degree spent an average £239 on books was published last month.

b)       100 per cent digital is expected to ever reach in the consumer world.

c)       Mehdi Maghsoodnia said that to help students, you had to lower the cost of textbooks.