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Re:College Students Can Now Rent Textbooks Electronically Fr... by farnsworth on Monday July 18, 2011 @01:44PM (#2777251)
4) Buying Kindle books and owning it forever is old news- but now you can rent them too. But as another student who has tried the Kindle-textbook solution in the past, I agree with the other points more or less. I will add that being able to search the entire text of the book instantly is a huge plus for me.

I really really want to like e-textbooks, but I wouldn't try experiment again without the large-format Kindle, and I just can't justify the massively increased price over the smaller Kindle.

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Re:College Students Can Now Rent Textbooks Electronically Fr... by sorbus on Monday July 18, 2011 @01:56PM (#2777320)
> Buying Kindle books and owning it forever is old news- but now you can rent them too.

Thanks for pointing that out; I've removed issue 4, because it's really just the product of my tired mind.

Having the entire text searchable is a really big plus. I wish that physical textbooks would start including a digital index, to make it easier to find things in them.

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