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		komali2 on July 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Best Textbooks on Every Subject Why would they have bothered writing the book if others existed? Or, if better books existed after they wrote theirs, why would they bother mentioning theirs at all?

macintux on July 26, 2018 [–]

You can acknowledge that someone else's book is well-written, accurate, and valuable even if you think yours is better, or has a different focus, or a different pedagogical method, or...

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