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Biology 2e by OpenStax
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1567 pages, Paperback
Published March 28, 2018
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August 27, 2025
Officially, I read 60% of the book, where an additional 10% is the index. So, in reality, I don't feel I am truly cheating by reading 2/3 of the book. As an OER resource, this book is better written than other similar textbooks. I enjoyed the evolution and plant taxonomy chapters a lot, whereas earlier chapters seem to be gramatically unclear at times with occasional errors.
Given this is an OER open access resource (and thus had lower expectations), I felt it was well organized, has nice photos and for the most part was easy to read.
Given this is an OER open access resource (and thus had lower expectations), I felt it was well organized, has nice photos and for the most part was easy to read.
February 27, 2024
A surprisingly really good textbook.
First off it was free from my school so that is almost an immediate 5 stars. It was definitely too long for the lack of depth into certain topics and how repetitive it was at times but I suppose every textbook is sort of like that. The topics were 9 out of 10 times understandable, which is a miracle and I only had to look up a couple more concise definitions for a few topics out of all the 47 chapters. The content also wasn't god-awful boring and I had a pretty good time reading it so yay!
First off it was free from my school so that is almost an immediate 5 stars. It was definitely too long for the lack of depth into certain topics and how repetitive it was at times but I suppose every textbook is sort of like that. The topics were 9 out of 10 times understandable, which is a miracle and I only had to look up a couple more concise definitions for a few topics out of all the 47 chapters. The content also wasn't god-awful boring and I had a pretty good time reading it so yay!
August 4, 2024
It wasn’t too bad of a read for my class, but my god writing the lab reports for this book was actually insane. So much pain.
Overall, 2.8/5
Overall, 2.8/5
December 7, 2024
I know more about evolution, protests, prokaryotes, and dna than I ever wanted To
And I don't like that
And I don't like that
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