I'll be commuting to college(NJIT, Majoring in Computer Science) and having most of my books in an ipad or kindle would be great. Also eBooks are cheaper most of the time.
So has anyone used either device as a college text book and how was the experience?
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Are either the ipad(not sure if it got college text books yet or was just rumored too) or the kindle DX a good replacement or compliment to college text books?
The iPad has a tremendous amount of functionality over the Kindle. If you get your textbooks through legitimate means, you have 4 major bookstores to choose from: Apple's iBooks, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Nobles' bookstore and the Kobo reader.
If you have textbooks gotten through humble origins, i.e. pdf files I suggest a 99 cent app named GoodReader which will even allow you to download all sorts of texts from email, websites and even cloud storage. Even Apple's iBooks will allow you read pdf's with beautiful formatting. GoodReader even allows you to extract text from pdf files.
There are also plenty of apps that help you study for subjects in computing, whether it be programming, Cisco networking or scripting. I've seen scripting IDE's in the app store.
Your prospective iPad can be a help in note taking, voice memos and even editing documents, much less consuming media like video, podcasts and iTunes U. My favorite app is Wikipanion for the iPad. I spend hours in it after looking up a term from a book I was reading on the same device!
If you have textbooks gotten through humble origins, i.e. pdf files I suggest a 99 cent app named GoodReader which will even allow you to download all sorts of texts from email, websites and even cloud storage. Even Apple's iBooks will allow you read pdf's with beautiful formatting. GoodReader even allows you to extract text from pdf files.
There are also plenty of apps that help you study for subjects in computing, whether it be programming, Cisco networking or scripting. I've seen scripting IDE's in the app store.
Your prospective iPad can be a help in note taking, voice memos and even editing documents, much less consuming media like video, podcasts and iTunes U. My favorite app is Wikipanion for the iPad. I spend hours in it after looking up a term from a book I was reading on the same device!
I use my iPad for textbooks everyday. Even stopped carrying my net book as it has replaced that for general browsing and googling during class.
And the ipad has far better PDF support than a kindle or other readers, or at least that is certainly true compared to my friends Sony e ink reader.
And the ipad has far better PDF support than a kindle or other readers, or at least that is certainly true compared to my friends Sony e ink reader.
So wait, you expect me to not only buy my textbooks new, but not be able to sell them back at the end of the semester? Not exactly cost effective. If you’re looking for cheap college books, you have to check out www.cheapesttextbooks.com/. I used to buy used from one of the stores at UDEL until I found this site, they had every textbook I needed for this semester for like half the price. Then, you can sell them back to the stores for the same price. Can’t beat it.
