Are Digital Copies easy to read? Cost Savings?

[booyah]

I was wondering how many out there use an iPad or other eReader to read digital copies of their textbooks. I like the fact of not having to carry around a bunch of books. Ideas?

[Behavioral]

Why not try it out at an Apple Store or something?

If you can handle reading PDFs on a computer LCD, then you can handle an iPad. Anything with e-Ink is easier on the eyes, but you lack the pinch zoom feature that iPads and other tablets offer.

I ended up compromising by buying both the older iPad and a Kindle 2G

[dimanche0829]

I can't stand reading electronic texts. I always end up with a massive headache after half only an hour or so of reading; not to mention, I just love the nostalgia of a real text.

[balderdash]

I bought the Kindle 3G. It works really well, but the problem comes with highlighting/making notes. I find that the keyboard is clunky enough where I don't want to type up notes, so I highlight long passages. But after 10% of the book gets highlighted, it stops adding them to your online collection (for copyright reasons). This means I have to go through and copy them to a word document, then manually delete them one-by-one, copy more to the word doc, etc. until I get all of them down. It's a hassle.

But for reading, it's a breeze. Well worth it.

[booyah]

Thats good to hear. I was reading the blog http://freeloadcollege.blogspot.com and found some sites like http://chegg.com and http://www.textbookmedia.com/freeloadpress . The ebooks are considerably cheaper so i'm thinking about getting those. I have an iPad and only read stuff on the web but thats no problem. Just got a free ebook from amazon and im gonna try it out.

Im not really needing the highlighting option but thats good advice.

Any other thoughts?

[Eigen]

I like real books for actual texts... Where the iPad shines for me is storing/reading tons of PDF journal articles- but I'm not usually reading those for as long of stretches at a time.

[booyah]

So far ive had no issues reading so im gonna stick to testing it out with that free ebook i downloaded. I have read some rather large pdf doc's, say maybe 20 pages or so and have had no issues. I did have to turn the brightness down just a tad when the lights are dim though.. Thanks for the input.

[booyah]

So far I'm not having any problems after about 100 pages or so.

Any other comments.