I am about to go back to school and buying books. There are different options to get textbooks on Kindle. Have any of you tried this and is it worth the savings to rent a Kindle textbook or not to even bother?
Find the cheapest option because some teachers only teach from power points and anything additional you can find on google for free. The best would be if you knew someone that took a certain teacher and they could tell you what to expect.
I went back to school a couple of years ago and love digital textbooks for one reason: searchable text. I get them when I can.
I've found that if you look up the professor here: http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ The comments can give you some clues.
Wouldn't bother with it. It'd probably be nice if you had a Kindle Fire or a color Kindle, but just black and white is gonna get old really fast for books.
Thanks for the comments. I'm going to give it a try and hope it works out. It's grad school so I'm not sure how much material will come from the book.
i always thought this is where iPad should have started. Apple should have made deals with textbooks publishers and put them on iPad including other video, 3D, etc options. Then give a big student discount on the purchase of iPads. give a moderate student discount on macbooks and you have them in the Apple loop. at the very least using iBooks to do purchasing etc.
Santa Claus brought my daughter a Kindle Wi-Fi (no Fire, no color, etc.) and that thing lasts FOREVER on one charge... maybe about a whole day that she used it. She reads a lot. Then, we tried the Fire and it ran out of battery in a couple of hours. Be ready to charge a lot if you get the ones that are color or back lit.
The old E-Ink readers last for damn near forever, no back light to use up the battery. Tablets generally have 10 hour batteries (Motorola Xoom etc...)
Rent, or purchase the e-books that are PDF's. Then use a PDF reader on your android based tablet (ezPDF pro), and it'll let you create/import/export annotations. It's amazing, haven't had a physical text book in a while.
