<p>an ipad to use a textbook is difficult at best.
iPads</a> replace textbooks at Lynn University, as other school study digital textbook options - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com</p>
<p>Digital books will never completely replace physical books. Period. Digital books are useful for some things and physical books are useful for other things. Coexistence is key.</p>
<p>I hate reading things off a screen. I don’t think I could ever make the switch from paper to digital.</p>
<p>I hate reading textbooks from a computer screen, but unfortunately I have to deal with it this semester. 2 of my classes require that I “purchase” an ebook. It’s kind of difficult for me to concentrate and read from long texts from my computer screen.</p>
<p>I don’t think ebooks should be forced. </p>
<p>I like em, but I’d rather buy the printed books for future use or to sell when done. </p>
<p>I don’t see how it’s impractical though.</p>
<p>Here’s another school’s experience:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.reed.edu/cis/about/ipad_pilot/Reed_ipad_report.pdf[/url]”>http://www.reed.edu/cis/about/ipad_pilot/Reed_ipad_report.pdf</a></p>
<p>I like hard copies better as an educational tool, but soft copies better as an educational reference. That is, if I am learning something and need to read through it, I prefer a book in my hand. But later, when I am just trying to reference specific things, it is often easier and more efficient to have a searchable document on a computer.</p>
<p>So I’ll take BOTH please!</p>
<p>Hmm, I’ve read entire textbooks using a pdf format of a textbook. I liked it because I use my iPad for taking notes (easier than you think, I can write as fast as on paper w/ iPad + smooth stylus) and screenshot textbook diagrams and figures and paste them right on my notes. Also</p>
<p>THE SEARCH FUNCTION. and quick bookmarking. So useful.</p>
<p>Sound Good here. U should buy PDF files for Textbooks
E-textbooks</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say that physical book will never be replaced as anvera claimed. That’s like saying that CDs (music) will never be fully replaced but let face it you’d rather have the digital copy of a free music than a physical copy of an entire album. Well this is not the perfect comparison since e-book have to be paid for. </p>
<p>But if Ipad were available for textbooks, I would love to pay less since they won’t be any physical damage. Also if I had my on tablets I should be able to use them at school for free provided the e-books been paid for (from a high school perspective).</p>
<p>^^ I’d rather have the CD. I’ve downloaded very little music in my life, but I have a collection of nearly a thousand CD’s, as well as close to 200 vinyl albums. They have artwork and collectability appeal that simply isn’t there in a digital file. Not to mention that the sound quality is quite superior, generally speaking.</p>
<p>I agree that ebooks could never completely replace conventional books. They’re nice in some instances, but I don’t care for them. I like having actual textbooks. I can reference a textbook without having to turn on a tablet and navigate to it. I can just flip the book open, and I’m done. I don’t like reading off of a screen constantly. People these days spend enough time staring at screens already. I don’t know the average, but between watching TV, using computers, and spending time with smart phones people spend a lot of time everyday staring at screens. It’s nice to spend some time looking at real paper too.</p>
<p>A lot of classes are unfortunately moving to internet based formats anymore. A lot of math classes at my school are internet based, and it’s frustrating. My math classes don’t use it, but I’m a math tutor and it is frustrating as hell waiting there while pages load, and having to stop what we’re doing while the tutee enters answers into the program. We’ll work through a program, then everything comes to a halt for a minute while they enter the answer using the extremely unintuitive entry methods. Multiply that minute times ten, and we’ve wasted a good chunk of our time.</p>
<p>Coexistance is best. Although I love technology, my eyes can’t take the screen for as long as it can with a regular book.</p>
<p>Low pixel density screens are part of what make reading off of them difficult. I cannot read extensively with my computer monitor, but I have no problem (even with smaller text) on my iPad. There are also definitely advantages to not having to carry around the beast of a textbook and being able to search the text, but there are some things I want to see:
(1) No DRM, or at least reasonable restrictions. If you are going to restrict me to using your textbook in your program that only works in Windows, forget it. I’m sticking with Linux. Let me use it on all my devices.
(2) Annotation ability. I want to be able to scribble all over it like a real textbook. I am a visual learner. Give me a PDF and let me handle the notes the way I want.
(3) Prices. If I can’t resell the book, I don’t want to be shafted by the ridiculous prices of the print textbooks.</p>
<p>I don’t think e-textbooks will replace physical ones for awhile, but I think that it is inevitable. When your tablet weighs a fraction of the weight of a single textbook and can hold thousands of times more information, it’s a matter of time. When eInk screens (like those used on ereaders) advance to the point that they can be used for normal computer screens, that’s my bet as to when physical textbooks will kick the bucket.</p>
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