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The apparatus

Keep the source inside the course.

The material is not a pretext for a list of tasks. It remains the thing you read, return to, question and cite.

See the Library Next: shape a term

A textbook is mostly not the textbook.

Contents pages, prefaces, copyright notices, indexes, glossaries, bibliographies and answer keys are recognised by their shape as well as their titles — and never turned into study blocks.

Principles of Microeconomics 2e

581 pp · 28 sections
  • Front matternot scheduled
  • Prefacenot scheduled
  • Solutionsnot scheduled
  • Solutionsnot scheduled
  • Referencesnot scheduled
  • The remaining 23 sections23 scheduled
Computed for Principles of Microeconomics 2e, OpenStax. A preface is not a chapter and an answer key is not a lesson; the registrar recognises both and schedules neither.

How it is recognised

Three tests, applied in order.

By title

Contents, preface, foreword, acknowledgements, copyright, dedication, index, glossary, bibliography, references, answers, credits, colophon.

By shape

A page where most lines end in a page number is a contents page, whatever it calls itself. A page of comma-separated number runs is an index.

By position

A short untitled opening before the first real section is front matter. The same shapes near the end of a book are back matter.

And always reported

Whatever was skipped is listed on the course with its page range, so you can disagree with the registrar knowingly.

A summary is a claim about a text made by something that will not sit the examination.

Lyceum schedules the text, then asks you about the text.
A reading chunk showing the original book pages rendered from the PDF, with a Pages and Text toggle above them
The original pages, with a Text toggle for the extracted version.

Source integrity

A reading plan that does not sever the reading.

What every course keeps hold of, for every source you give it.
What you can bringPDF · Word · markdown · plain text · a web page
Several sourcesjoined into one course, in the order you add them
Every reading chunkrecords its character range, and its pages in the PDF
The study dayrenders those pages as they were printed
The Materials tabword count · page count · scheduled · skipped

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