Harvard Coop Discourages Notetaking in Bookstore
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 the numbers just to save money if not their own then their parents hard earned cash.
Here is the article about a student being asked to leave the bookstore.
Taking notes in class may be encouraged, but apparently it can get you kicked out of the Coop.
Jarret A. Zafran ’09 said he was asked to leave the Coop after writing down the prices of six books required for a junior Social Studies tutorial he hopes to take.
“I’m a junior and every semester I do the same thing. I go and look up the author and the cost and order the ones that are cheaper online and then go back to the Coop to get the rest,” Zafran said.
“I’m not a rival bookstore, I’m a student with an I.D.,” he added.
Coop President Jerry P. Murphy ’73 said that while there is no Coop policy against individual students copying down book information, “we discourage people who are taking down a lot of notes.”
More here: http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=519564
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