04-06-2019, 03:15 PM | #1 | ||
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Tablet in lieu of textbooks?
Does anyone have any experience with downloading textbooks onto a tablet? Any recommendations for the best tablets to use and the best apps would be greatly appreciated
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04-06-2019, 04:37 PM | #2 |
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The downside of course being that digital textbooks have no resale value and they're almost as expensive.
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04-06-2019, 05:58 PM | #3 | |
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Advantage being that they weigh a lot less
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04-06-2019, 08:24 PM | #4 |
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My students almost universally hate on-line textbooks. So much so that I no longer use them even though the ones I was using were about 1/3 of the cost of a hard copy.
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04-06-2019, 10:21 PM | #5 |
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I had a few students who used them. Almost everyone preferred physical copies, though. Especially if you're the type to annotate or mark up your text. It's a hassle doing that on tablets, even for the kids who haven't known much of the analog world and been almost exclusively online/digital.
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