openfreebooks-bookgenerator/themes/openfreebooks/templates/partials/why-sections.html

<section class="why-section" id="why-textbook-costs">
  <div class="container why-row">
    <div class="why-art" data-scroll-reveal-card>
      {% include "partials/svg/why-textbook-costs.html" %}
    </div>
    <div class="why-copy" data-scroll-reveal-card>
      <p class="section-kicker">The problem</p>
      <h2 class="section-title">Textbook fees hit families hard</h2>
      <p>
        In many countries, families pay hundreds of dollars per child each year for printed textbooks —
        on top of tuition, devices, and supplies. When money is tight, students share worn copies, skip
        buying books, or fall behind before the term begins.
      </p>
      <p>
        That cost is not a small inconvenience. It is a barrier to showing up prepared. Open Free Books
        exists so <strong>every learner can start the year with complete materials</strong>, not a receipt.
      </p>
    </div>
  </div>
</section>

<section class="why-section" id="why-html">
  <div class="container why-row why-row--art-end">
    <div class="why-art" data-scroll-reveal-card>
      {% include "partials/svg/why-html.html" %}
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    <div class="why-copy" data-scroll-reveal-card>
      <p class="section-kicker">The medium</p>
      <h2 class="section-title">Long live the web — not the PDF</h2>
      <p>
        Paper textbooks are fixed: one layout, one edition, no room to fix a typo until the next print run.
        Most “digital” versions are the same pages exported to PDF — still static, still hard to search,
        still impossible to embed a simulation or a live diagram.
      </p>
      <p>
        <strong>HTML on the open web</strong> is different. Chapters can link to sources, resize for any screen,
        include interactive figures, and improve over time. The book becomes something you use — not something
        you only carry.
      </p>
    </div>
  </div>
</section>

<section class="why-section" id="why-teachers">
  <div class="container why-row">
    <div class="why-art" data-scroll-reveal-card>
      {% include "partials/svg/why-teachers.html" %}
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    <div class="why-copy" data-scroll-reveal-card>
      <p class="section-kicker">People &amp; books</p>
      <h2 class="section-title">Replace textbooks, not teachers</h2>
      <p>
        A great teacher — whether in person or, someday, assisted by thoughtful tools — still sets pace,
        asks hard questions, and notices when a student is stuck. That relationship is not what we are
        trying to automate.
      </p>
      <p>
        Textbooks are different. They are reference and structure: explanations, exercises, diagrams.
        Those can be <strong>free, forkable, and kept current on the web</strong> so teachers spend less
        time hunting permissions and more time teaching.
      </p>
    </div>
  </div>
</section>

<section class="why-section" id="why-learning">
  <div class="container why-row why-row--art-end">
    <div class="why-art" data-scroll-reveal-card>
      {% include "partials/svg/why-learning.html" %}
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    <div class="why-copy" data-scroll-reveal-card>
      <p class="section-kicker">Agency</p>
      <h2 class="section-title">Do not outsource your learning</h2>
      <p>
        Finishing a chapter is not the same as understanding it. Skimming for answers, copying worked
        solutions, or rushing to the end leaves gaps that show up on the next test — and in the years after.
      </p>
      <p>
        Read slowly. Try the problems before you peek at hints. Sit with confusion long enough to name what
        you do not get. <strong>The textbook is a guide; the thinking still has to be yours.</strong> That habit
        is what school is really training, whether the subject is algebra or history.
      </p>
    </div>
  </div>
</section>

<section class="why-section" id="why-not-ai">
  <div class="container why-row">
    <div class="why-art" data-scroll-reveal-card>
      {% include "partials/svg/why-not-ai.html" %}
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    <div class="why-copy" data-scroll-reveal-card>
      <p class="section-kicker">Planet</p>
      <h2 class="section-title">Open textbooks are gentler on the Earth</h2>
      <p>
        Everybody learns the same basics. Everybody prompts AI the same thing. Core curriculum changes slowly. 
        Newton’s laws, the structure of a cell, and how fractions work do not need a new AI run every September. 
        Regenerating the same chapter thousands of times burns electricity in data centers — for text that could 
        have been written once and shared openly.
      </p>
      <p>
        <strong>One carefully reviewed book</strong>, published on the web for everyone, means less redundant
        compute, less e-waste from disposable PDFs, and fewer trucks moving heavy print runs. Students get
        stable material they can trust; the environment gets less waste from doing the same work over and over.
      </p>
    </div>
  </div>
</section>