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Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 19 May 2015 02:11:52PM 3 points [-]

How are we operationalising "best" here? The purpose of textbooks is to efficiently impart material. Popular books have a wide variety of purposes (to inform, inspire, entertain, polemicise, etc.), so by what standard are we holding one popular book to be superior to another?