<p>Easy to answer questions about your text books. </p>
<p>Would you rather pay XXX amount for a hard copy text book or would you rather spend 3 to 5 dollars per chapter for an online version and a chapter on audio that you can download from itunes to put on your MP3 player? You only have to buy a chapter at a time so no fronting 150 bucks upfront</p>
<p>What are the pros and cons of both and what would you prefer.</p>
<p>Personally, I’d rather just buy the book. Having something physical reminds me that I should read it besides doing assignments–it kinda glares at me from my bookcase. And either way, you’re going to spend about the same so you may as well spend it upfront, and not worry about spending that money on other things as time goes on.</p>
<p>A 3 pound or more text book is pretty heavy. Something I can carry around on my laptop In PDF form that I can copy and past to make a quick note guide has its benifits. Also not reading a chapter and pluging it into my ipod and listening to it on the way to school incase I procrastinated a little to long.</p>
<p>Man, I can’t even imagine trying to listen to a science/engineering book on tape.</p>
<p>Best texts out there are ones that have a book and a CD with some extras on it. I remember my differential equations class’s book’s cd had the entire book as a .pdf, extra worked examples, and software to let you play with modifying equations and seeing what happened.</p>
<p>Ok I can see not having a science, engineering or even a math book on tape just because of the obvious but physcology or history or anything in that nature</p>
<p>I’d rather buy the book, though an ebook is also an option if I can use my kindle. Just a computer option sucks, we get most of our reading online for free. I am so not sitting at my computer and reading 1000 pages, I need a book. Plus then I can’t write notes in the margins.</p>
<p>I’d rather have the book. I hate doing extensive reading online or whatever. I like hard copies.</p>
<p>I’d buy the hardcopy book. I hate reading as little as ten pages on a screen, let alone hundreds. It hurts my eyes.</p>
<p>Also, I like to highlight and underline stuff. It’s just not the same on the computer.</p>
<p>Buy the book. I can usually get my hands on a (less than legal) free e-copy online anyway, so why pay for it? I only use the e-copies if buying it is ridiculously expensive at all stores visited. </p>
<p>I dislike reading for an extensive time online and will probably wander off to YouTube or something and never read it.</p>
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That and the terrible eye strain. I never read any sort of complex text on the computer.</p>