College Students Can Now Rent Textbooks Electronically From Amazon

Re:College Students Can Now Rent Textbooks Electronically Fr... by Locke1689 on Monday July 18, 2011 @02:19PM (#2777437)

While electronic textbooks do let you skip randomly between pages, it would end up being a mixture of memorizing page numbers and looking at the table of contents.

Have you ever actually used a Kindle textbook? There's a bookmark feature that allows you to immediately jump to preselected pages in the book. It's infinitely more useful than having a bunch of stupid physical placeholders in a textbook that you need to jump around with. Also, I can search my textbook. Can you?

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Re:College Students Can Now Rent Textbooks Electronically Fr... by Goronmon on Monday July 18, 2011 @03:11PM (#2777696)

Also, I can search my textbook. Can you?

Yes, it's called an Index.

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Re:College Students Can Now Rent Textbooks Electronically Fr... by Ronkdar on Monday July 18, 2011 @04:05PM (#2777980)

I would like for this to be a valid argument, but in at least 3/4 of the textbooks I own, the indices are such trash that they're not even worth looking at. The Table of Contents is often faster.

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Re:College Students Can Now Rent Textbooks Electronically Fr... by Locke1689 on Monday July 18, 2011 @08:22PM (#2779016)

Not unless your book's index contains every word and phrase in the book.

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