Archive for November, 2007

Harvard Coop Discourages Notetaking in Bookstore

November 8, 2007

No wonder students are transposing the ISBN numbers when writing them down.  They are in such a hurry to not get caught by the bookstore employees they write down the wrong ISBN.  Thats one of the reasons I founded TextBack.net.  Sounds crazy  that the bookstore has to ask students to leave because they writing down [...]

Why text messaging for TextBooks is a good idea

November 3, 2007

We joke about it on our web site TextBack.net .  Humorously naming a fake condition ”Chronic ISBN Transposition”.  As if it were some kind of disease.   Seriously though you can write down the wrong number or switch number positions which is transposing.  Therefore you have the wrong ISBN and will have to go back to the campus book store.
But [...]