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By the time I graduated, 90% of my books were ebooks or pdfs the professor had samizdat'd from the publisher.

The other 10% were books the publisher only had physical prints of or which I could find pdf copies from other locales of.

> LaTeX

I submitted a lot of things done in LaTeX that professors hated grading for the sheer reason that I made them count words manually instead of letting them skim-count based on the number of words on a Word page. I eventually wrangled the `Geometry` and `mla.sty` packages into submission and even made my own custom version of Garamond that added an extra en-space to periods following a character followed by a space just to be boring.



I just made my template dump a word count and nobody seemed to care after awhile.




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