IVP - Andy Unedited - Saving the Textbook--or Not

Hmmm. If I could have gotten all my MA Ed textbooks in ebook Kindle format, I probably would have bought a $500 Kindle for that purpose. But only if ALL (or, all but a few) of the texts were available. Otherwise, the price is too steep for my tastes. Academia is the one area that I discovered and embraced the wonders of ebooks, even without the added features you mention. It was just so easy to highlight, annotate, footnote, search, etc--all the stuff one needs to do for a research paper. If we're on our way to having all textbooks in electronic format, then Amazon is probably on its way to a hit.

I think it's a hit, as it overcomes one of my two biggest concerns--keeping the formatting of textbooks (and other books, like study Bibles). But (speaking as a student) until I can easily underline, circle, etc like a print book, they won't be getting my business. I never feel like I can read thoughtfully unless I have a pen in my hand.

I think it's a hit, as it overcomes one of my two biggest concerns--keeping the formatting of textbooks (and other books, like study Bibles). But (speaking as a student) until I can easily underline, circle, etc like a print book, they won't be getting my business. I never feel like I can read thoughtfully unless I have a pen in my hand.

The Kindle DX is not something I intend to purchase but I am not a student either.

I do like my Kindle 2 a lot and find it very well suited to my personal reading habits. I read the local newspaper every morning, a lot of fiction, and some non-fiction.

The newspaper is a subscription and very well done. It is still unclear to me that it is a viable business model for newspapers but I really like having mine. I tried a couple of magazines and did not like them at all and also did not like a couple of other newspapers.

It is very nice that I can manage my notes and marks via the web. That's a feature that I had not really anticipated but makes perfect sense.

The iPhone Kindle application is really impressive to me. It is much better than I expected and used much more than I ever dreamed.

The big thing to me about using a digital textbook is that everyone would have to be using exactly the same content. I know of at least one case in a study group where some people were using regular books and others were using e-books and there were too many differences.

Otherwise though it seems to make a lot of sense to me digital textbooks to become common.

That's great feedback. Very helpful. Thanks!

Andy