<p>is it better to save money and rent e-books on the nook, or to buy regular textbooks? Opinions? Comments? Experiences?</p>
<p>Wondering the same thing. I heard the Kindle had more selections for textbooks though.</p>
<p>The problem w/nook and kindle is that the selection of books is still quite limited. Idk if all your textbooks will be available in the selection</p>
<p>Yeah I don’t think that textbook have completely gone digital yet…maybe a few years down the road it will be better but for now I am not sure.</p>
<p>Looking at those little screens all day can’t be good for your eyes. It gives me a headache, personally.
I would go with the regular textbook.</p>
<p>This shouldn’t even be a question. But if you really want someone to echo the answer you already know, regular textbooks.</p>
<p>PRiNCESSMAHiNA - those aren’t really “screens.” e-readers are pretty cool, technology wise. it’s digital ink, so it doesn’t strain your eyes as badly as an lcd screen. the only battery power modern e-readers use is to turn pages and change the digital ink. think of it as a print book that can magically re-arrange its ink like something out of harry potter. after a page is changed, the screen is very very close to a real print book, with super-special emphasis on real.</p>
<p>btw - you can’t sell back (and for 80-90% of what you paid, too) e-books like you can real textbooks. forget that they’re cheaper. the demonic publishers now hold your soul in the palms of their piggy banks. if you wish to support the publishers’ regimes of evil, buy a nook. but just remember that all of us regular folk will be forced to see you as nothing more than a degraded form of life - a once-decent character which unfortunately made some mistakes while human that severed their ties to humanity.</p>
<p>p.s.s. - renting is far worse than buying real textbooks and fake textbooks. with renting, there will be absolutely NO chance of earning your money back.</p>
<p>I just buy cheap from valorebooks .com. I have no interest in a kindle and I tried ebooks but the internet is way to distracting</p>
<p>I thought E-books would just be easier to carry around and find pages, thats all. i didn’t think it would be such a horrible thing…</p>
<p>rymd:
You took the words right out of my mouth in regards to e-ink ereaders :). I would like to add that the Nook Color is actually an LCD screen and not e-ink so that one can be a strain on the eyes. They do have the e-ink Nook still available, though, but I’m a Kindle girl. Will be interesting to see how library lending for the Kindle is going to affect arguments against the device because it’s lacked this service.</p>
<p>That said, ereaders are terrible for regular textbooks and can be significantly more expensive. I buy novels I have to read (and in many cases the books are public domain so I get them for free), but I buy the real version of textbooks. It’s just cheaper if you shop smart. Ebooks published by the Big Six currently work under the Agency Model so some prices are truly outrageous. Textbooks seem to fall into that outrageous category.</p>
<p>Honestly, I wouldn’t get an ereader just for school. I love my Kindle and it is attached to my hip. I love that it’s light, that I can carry a library with me, and that it’s easy to pull out and read from on the bus, but it’s just not practical for many textbooks. I’ve found textbooks I need that are $100+ for less than a $1 simply by using the older edition.</p>
<p>Now, I am a highschool student and I use a kindle for my primary “textbook” at school. The problem I ran into was the lack of availability of textbooks. I found only 2 textbooks for the classes I am taking this year. I still prefer the hard covered textbooks at home though. I mainly use my kindle for just “reading”, never any technical stuff. So I still have my C++ Reference book, was considering putting the IA32 and PPC Instruction Set in my Kindle, but I much rather find a physical one…</p>
<p>That being said, anyone know where to pick up a physical Instruction set manual for PPC or IA32?</p>
<p>On the other note, I like the whole sentimental value of an actual “library”.</p>
<p>i try not to stare at computer screens or electronic screens or natural-lighting screens or whatever as much as possible. i plan on taking notes in lectures (if i bother) by hand and using good old-fashioned textbooks =)</p>
<p>E-readers are great for newspapers, literature and other books that are all text. However, they have not yet been perfected enough to be productive for other types of textbooks, especially science textbooks.</p>