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> several including myself

Nice to meet the unicorn! Meanwhile, how many textbooks are on the shelves at Barnes&Nobel? Not exactly bestsellers, right? Even the University of Washington bookstore puts the textbooks in a separate room in the basement.

> Textbook-level treatment of a subject is usually very shallow

Maybe the ones you read are. The ones Caltech uses aren't, like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Gravitation-Charles-W-Misner/dp/06911...



Caltech has decided not to stock textbooks in its bookstore anymore, sadly (when I was there they still did)


Wow. I wonder what the rationale was.




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