Dear Academia: Everyone else switched from tape years ago, why can't you?!

Well, my tape deck is well and truly broken.

After taking it apart so I could get the damned tape out, I kind of wonder how they ever managed to put it together, since the design was not exactly conducive to assembly, much less re-assembly.

God only knows how much a new one will cost, now that everyone except for the Cambridge University Press is using CD.

The tape itself is now also unplayable, assuming I had something left with which to play it.

I've written the CUP, and hopefully I get positive word back from Amazon. I did discover and report the problem within 30 days of delivery, allowing for holidays, and their return centre did show it automatically as being part of an order I could return, and the thing is very definitely defective in a damaging way.

If I'd had it playing on and off for the entire month, I could understand, but this was its first time ever! And it committed murder/suicide on my tape deck!!

So yeah, I really hope I can get a replacement at no extra charge, since this thing has cost me far more than it's worth and I rather doubt Cambridge is going to put their courses on CD until they've sold off all their remaining stock, or whatever it takes to get them into the digital age.

I'm so not buying the remaining books in the series now.

And likely not anything else under their imprint for the forseeable future.