Does anyone use a kindle

[ElizabethBennet]

or something similar for textbooks? Is it cheaper to go that route?

[Yankees21]

I did for some of my classes in college, it was usually cheaper.

[wambam]

I tried for one textbook one semester of my last year of college. It was very difficult and I would not recommend it. But it was an engineering class, so perhaps with a textbook that's more "narrative" rather than equations and problems it would be better.

[TrickyBob]

I tried it for one text book for a class, I didn't like it. As much as I like reading on my Kindle, I didn't like that I couldn't flip between the pages like you can with a real text book. I know my kindle can let me word search and get to different pages, but it's so much easier with the actual book.

But I did rent it off of amazon.

[rupertpenny]

I can't do kindle text books. It just does not work for me.

If you don't want to pay for texts get them from the library. If the only copy is checked out see if you your library can get you another copy through some kind of library consortium or inter-library loan. You can also check on worldcat.org and it will show you which libraries near you have a copy. I use this to see if it a book I need might be in some kind of special or government library and it works sometimes.

[open24hours]

I loved my Kindle for reading novels and other books I read from beginning to end and am not constantly flipping between pages. But, that is not how I read a textbook, so I don't use the Kindle for that. Plus, if you a textbook has a lot of tables, figures, side text boxes, etc, they are not rendered well in the Kindle format.

[ElizabethBennet]

Hmm...maybe it's not such a good idea then. Thanks guys

[TrickyBob]

I mentioned this in Om's thread, but I use bookrenter.com. And I don't pay very much for my books. It's far cheaper than my school's bookstore but doesn't always have everything. Although, I'v only had to go to Amazon 1 time so far to look for a book.

You can also buy them from there, if you want.