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.
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.
Uni textbooks are a racket, not a shelf of professional reference material for the workplace.
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.
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.