well that's not so bad, I generally manage my stuff pretty easily, week before my assignments are due I read through material and write down useful quotes, then write the full assignment in a day, proof read it, print it and forget about it until it's due, this generally works fine, except in contract (I'm currently studying my bachelor of Law and Legal Practice) where it takes a week to read one case, and that's NOT an exaggeration, contract cases average about two hundred pages, the case reader (which is exactly that a collection of cases for the subject) is more then double the thickness of any of my textbooks
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My university does provide my material electronically but I still need to buy it first otherwise they can't clear the publishing