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I don't mind using ebooks or PDF-type books for research, but not for multi-chapter reading assignments. I need a real book for that. The past few courses I've taken are ebooks. Yuk! Although I got the geography ebook, I bought a hardcopy instead (with a $40 “buy now with one click” mistake from Amazon. Had one for $70 in my shopping cart and I guess I clicked the wrong one…don't ask DOH! :-[ ). At least I found one for another upcoming course for $30.I hope AMU doesn't make a habit of this. The free books for UG's was a big selling point for me. Oh well, if I took couses at PC (or anywhere else for that matter), I'd have to buy the books seperately. Guess I shouldn't complain.
I remember them saying something in the student newsletter last year saying that e-books are the wave of the future and within a year or two they plan on doing e-book only. I too am in the e-book haters club. I have only had one course with an e-book I couldn't get hardcopy and I payed staples to get that one printed off.Luckily, I should finish my MA next year and will hopefully miss the e-book wave.
As the geek I am I ordinarily look for goof pdf readers. I despise Adobe Reader and so about a year ago I started on Foxit, which is much better in terms of loading time. Then last night I found PDFX Viewer, which allows me to highlight, write on PDFs, etc. and save without it putting any “evaluation” marks on them. Awesome. Plus it still loads up really quickly. I'm glad because I frequently deal with pdf files.
I use Acrobat Prof. and like it. These ebooks don't come in PDF though, it's some Virtual Book program.Sitting at the computer too long hurts my eyes. When reading a lot of pages and taking notes, a comfortable chair is preferred.
I use Acrobat Prof. and like it. These ebooks don't come in PDF though, it's some Virtual Book program.Sitting at the computer too long hurts my eyes. When reading a lot of pages and taking notes, a comfortable chair is preferred.
If you have a laptop, read your ebooks from that in your comfy chair, and put the pages on auto scroll at the speed you are most comfortable. You shouldn't read any longer than your laptop battery anyway, so when your battery gets low, you take a break.
