Most of my textbooks are legit reference texts, which I do pull out and use as references frequently.
It helps a lot when you have to catch up on a topic you haven’t looked at in 5 years. They also help when I’m trying to teach myself a new topic that wasn’t taught in university.
During COVID springer made a lot of their collection free to download so I pulled a ton of digital texts too.
It depends on what the books are and what the reference material is. I’m an accountant, and anything like tax/compliance & standards related is usually digital because of how fast and often it changes. But I still have what you would call textbooks that I reference pretty often. Mostly my Treasury book, or when I’m trying to find a formula for a specific application. Hell I’ve even been guilty of digging back through my books from my articling period, to find something specific from time to time.
I love working from home.
Even before Covid I worked remotely 1-2 days a week because it’s more productive.
The modern workplace with open offices is not suitable to keeping a ton of reference books and doing deep work.
Reference books? Are still a thing? I thought everything was digitized.
Most of my textbooks are not digital, and they’re filled with post it notes and tabs.
Digital is okay, I’ve got a ton of digital books but they don’t trigger my memory as well.
Uni textbooks are a racket, not a shelf of professional reference material for the workplace.
Most of my textbooks are legit reference texts, which I do pull out and use as references frequently.
It helps a lot when you have to catch up on a topic you haven’t looked at in 5 years. They also help when I’m trying to teach myself a new topic that wasn’t taught in university.
During COVID springer made a lot of their collection free to download so I pulled a ton of digital texts too.
It depends on what the books are and what the reference material is. I’m an accountant, and anything like tax/compliance & standards related is usually digital because of how fast and often it changes. But I still have what you would call textbooks that I reference pretty often. Mostly my Treasury book, or when I’m trying to find a formula for a specific application. Hell I’ve even been guilty of digging back through my books from my articling period, to find something specific from time to time.