{"id":777,"date":"2012-09-17T18:31:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T23:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=777"},"modified":"2012-09-18T23:04:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T04:04:06","slug":"its-as-bad-as-that-and-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2012\/09\/17\/its-as-bad-as-that-and-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s as bad as that and worse."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><br \/>\n<b>Update: <\/b>Worser and worser. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2012\/09\/18\/remember-that-180-is-for-a-single-term-its-another-180-for-next-terms-pretend-textbook\/\">It&#8217;s turtles all the way down.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2012\/09\/16\/copyright-and-the-pictureless-art-history-textbook\/\">recent post<\/a>, I told the story of students reacting to an expensive and lacking new textbook and the school assuring them that the textbook is really quite reasonable.  I was almost ready to chalk it up as a misunderstanding.<\/p>\n<p>That is, until I saw the preview chapters.  What an unmitigated sham of a travesty of a mockery of a hand-drawn-facsmile of a textbook.  Scratch that, a hand-drawn-facsimile would be a step up.<\/p>\n<p>For the purposes of review and criticism, here is a single example page from this ridiculous excuse for an Art History textbook costing $180 (+ tax = 203.40).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blogs\/brentashley\/textbook-example1.png\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/brentashley\/textbook-example1.png\" alt=\"click to enlarge\" style=\"width:80%\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Notice there are callouts from the bottom image-placeholder.  When the student gets home from trying to study the book on the subway, they&#8217;ll have to type in the url and approximate in their mind where the callout is pointing to in the online picture.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.  I really thought it couldn&#8217;t be this bad.<\/p>\n<p>I am really interested to see what sort of attempt OCAD University makes to clean up this toxic spill.<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone send me a photo of one of the actual pages of the printed book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Worser and worser. It&#8217;s turtles all the way down. In my recent post, I told the story of students reacting to an expensive and lacking new textbook and the school assuring them that the textbook is really quite reasonable. I was almost ready to chalk it up as a misunderstanding. That is, until I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}