Been wrenching on bikes for 20 years and honestly it's the same thing with torque specs on stem bolts. Everybody says just snug it up, then someone cracks a carbon bar and suddenly we all remember there's a number for a reason. The body learns bad habits fast and they feel right because nothing broke yet. Sort of like how people drive without checking tire pressure for years until a blowout on the highway teaches them. Your hands remember what worked, not what's correct.

Hold on, I gotta push back a little on this one. Those annotated editions are meant to be a starting point, not the final word on every symbol in the book. You can't expect the notes to settle a 45 minute argument about the white whale, that's kind of the whole point of reading it together. Plot summaries are annoying for sure, but the real deal is that Moby Dick has been argued about for over a hundred years, no single book is gonna give you the answer. The free library PDF is probably gonna give you the same exact text, just without the extra pages of notes. So the real scam might be expecting a book to do the thinking for your group.