Why are they called textbooks?
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They've got a lot of text haven't they
Just occurred to me for first time lol
I think historically "texts" were all those manuscripts copied by hand and bound. Then printed on presses. Things like religious or academical or historical "texts."
So when socialists wanted to standardize propaganda into big tomes, I guess "textbooks" were a good thing to call them.
Was going to say this. π€·ββοΈπ
Seems redundant.
And possibly confusing when trying to differentiate from audiobooks
some call them expository texts
More like suppository texts nyuck
Gonna google now, brb
No need. Itβs too niche to be of any use π
There are also things called picture books.
I still have your article open. Gonna read it soon fyi
Great! π I know it's not a casual read lol
Because booktext is harder to say.
Also because there's a psychological hook in absurdity, and textbooks are distinguished by an aire of authority, and all authority is built on absurdity, so any aire of authority requires some little hook that forces the mind into choosing to ignore the absurdity, which is the aperture through which authority is inserted. Run on sentence? Maybe.
Gooooood answer!
nostr:npub1vemf09ljxzeanx2ht7wzzenphchw3yvjzzp6a4pdp8k8v6qj58xs43mz3k kinda related to our other convo imo
Yes lol
Check this out
This is good. And there are sooooo many examples... I was just noticing one this morning but I already forgot it π
Do you guys know where to download t h is for free? Loll https://revivalofwisdom.com/products/book-of-wisdom-pdf-english?sca_ref=6521845.TEpHJjIQbR
Another great video
Have to go to some bday thing, ugh. Later though
Also, are they really useful?
I'm personally a fan, so yes.
Maybe for a beginner level intro to a subject, sure. But as you gain expertise, they start becoming useless.
Ah, guess you have a point. I might not be expert in anything, now that I think about it π’
Shitposting maybe lol
According to /u/Concise_Pirate, who is too much of a coward to be banned from reddit even 11 years later and should thus be taken with a grain of salt:
"the term originally described a very specific kind of book, when they had a room in between the lines for you to write additional notes in while you studied."
Cool handle, but yeah, what a coward!
That jives with what I briefly read. Distinguished from workbooks and notebooks, more authoritative and yeah the thing with margins was mentioned.
