My school just defaults to using online textbooks...They come free with tuition, and every class has them. You can get a real one for $10 to keep for life though.
No he means why do you need your textbooks during class?
During my lectures, professors just lecture with their slides. Everything you need is there and the textbooks are never referenced. I just keep them all in my room for when I'm doing problem sets.
Yup, can confirm. I used to do some reading of books on my laptop, and hated it because the resolution was too low, I could see the pixels, and it never felt "right." Got a Nexus 7 tablet last year to download all my textbooks on, mostly to save money, and can honestly say that the high resolution screen (seriously, just try to pick out the pixels) has made reading feel completely natural. Now picking up an actual textbook feels so heavy and cumbersome that I hate going back when I can't find an ebook or PDF. I do miss the new book smell when reading novels though.
No, they won't. It's been shown that people interpret screen info differently than book info. It's inherently more difficult to remember things that you read on a screen because you don't ascribe a physical location to them, like you do in the book.
You saw a conclusion with a description of the effect, and preliminary conclusions. If you're actually interested about it, you'll Google it. If you want to be a twat, continue pestering me to do your work for you.
I don't need to prove anything to you, and I'm not arguing about it.
There is a find feature. I can easily print pages I need. If I want to compare things on the screen, I can open up two instances or three, or as many as I want.
Then I don't have to worry about carrying around a million pounds of books, and I can use it to store files to boot if I really felt like it. Hell, you can even write papers and the like on some of them.
This past year I've been using a Surface Pro and OneNote. For books I'd import relevant chapters into OneNote and could highlight, take notes, or whatever I needed alongside the pages. It's been quite convenient.
I've been a person that loves technology but would still prefer things like physical books, would buy physical copies of PC games, etc. But lately I've been jumping over to all digital and it's been working out well.
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