<p>Has anyone used the Kindle for college text books? If so, what's it like? If it can help me cut down on costs I'd be interested in buying one.</p>
<p>I have tried it. It’s handy and small, and you will save money on text books. But I really don’t like not having an actual text book in front of me. The page numbers are off, so if your professor tells you to flip to one you’ll have to find it. It’s nice, and it will save money, but I prefer text books.</p>
<p>I would recommend it in humanities classes where you read several small nonfiction books/novels instead of using a big textbook. For math and science classes, I would definitely go with regular textbooks.</p>
<p>I have mostly social science type classes and tried to use the kindle for classes, and it is too inconvenient because of the page number issue. It is a pain to be in class and have someone say “turn to page 4…” and not HAVE a page 4, or try to cite a paper without proper page numbers. I thought I had read that the “locations” they give you are supposed to somehow be helpful in this but I have had my kindle for a year and still haven’t figured it out.</p>
<p>I have a Kindle and I use it to read news and the occasional book, but I can’t imagine having my school books on it. I’m a highlighting maniac when it comes to textbooks, so it just wouldn’t work for me.</p>
<p>^You can highlight on kindle, and it gives you a page with all your highlights organized, and you can also add your own footnotes right in the text. That is part of the reason why I like it, it takes forever to compile those master lists by hand. That is what I am trying to do right now! I just can’t get past the page number issue.</p>
<p>Can you actually find most latest editions college textbooks as eBooks? Or is it a very narrow selection?</p>
<p>I believe its any book you can get on amazon? There is a wide selection imo</p>
<p>No, it is not any book you can get on amazon, and I have had a hard time finding my books, actually. It’s very hit and miss, and in my experience the newer the book is the less likely it is to be in ebook format on amazon, but my books are all in a very specialized category so it could vary.</p>
<p>I know you can highlight/take notes/etc, but I’d rather whip out my highlighter and just get it over with rather than having to click and scroll with that awkward little button, especially if it’s a long passage… the master list thing is pretty cool, though. Anyway, to each his own, my friend has a Kindle DX with two textbooks on it and he loves it.</p>