<p>Unless you’re doing science or math, you probably won’t even have a “real textbook.” All my humanities classes either use paperback anthologies (English) or small published works (novels and things like nonfiction studies, experiments, analyses, etc.)</p>
<p>The only class I have a textbook for is Japanese, and that’s still a small paperback textbook that isn’t even the width or height of my notebook for the class.</p>
<p>In addition, you rarely need the book in class. The only class where I bring the book is Japanese (because we do in-class exercises). For other classes, I just bring the small novel/book we’re reading for the week or my laptop if we read articles or .pdf scans instead.</p>
<p>So my backpack consistently contains a few small novel-sized books, a notebook or two, and my pencil case.</p>
<p>It’s noting like lugging books around in high school.</p>