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Has anyone either in law school or heard of anyone in law school using e-readers for most of their books?
If so, how is the availability of texts and the ease? I am considering purchasing a Nook.
If so, how is the availability of texts and the ease? I am considering purchasing a Nook.
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Re: The Nook
If you do get an e-reader, you'll be best served by a Kindle.
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TITCR. The bottom-touch screen thing on the Nook sucks, and so does the browser. Kindle ftw.ResolutePear wrote:If you do get an e-reader, you'll be best served by a Kindle.
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fixed.D-ROCCA wrote:TITCR. The bottom-touch screen thing on the Nook sucks, and so does the browser. Kindle DX ftw.ResolutePear wrote:If you do get an e-reader, you'll be best served by a Kindle DX.
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Re: The Nook
How is the book availability?
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Re: The Nook
Your eyes will melt after reading it for 5 hours straight.thegor1987 wrote:iPad.
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You don't want to use an e-reader for your books in law school. You are going to want to be able to mark them up(a lot more than an ereader will allow) and look through them quickly in class. I don't think any of my books were available in an ebook version.
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Guess markings on the screen aren't too efficient.eandy wrote:You don't want to use an e-reader for your books in law school. You are going to want to be able to mark them up(a lot more than an ereader will allow) and look through them quickly in class. I don't think any of my books were available in an ebook version.
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Using an e-reader in class would suck. I can see an iPad being useful for taking notes in class and that's about it.
Marking on e-readers and ipads from what i've seen isnt as easy as it is doing it the old-fashioned way - in the book.
Marking on e-readers and ipads from what i've seen isnt as easy as it is doing it the old-fashioned way - in the book.
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I meant literally taking a permanent marker to the thing. I guess traditional ol' books would make sense...Kobe_Teeth wrote:Using an e-reader in class would suck. I can see an iPad being useful for taking notes in class and that's about it.
Marking on e-readers and ipads from what i've seen isnt as easy as it is doing it the old-fashioned way - in the book.
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Re: The Nook
ereaders are no good for large books that you need to search, access quickly, or mark-up. That said, I haven't seen any of my law books available for purchase in eformat.
What I do is this:
I take all my books to Kinko's, have them cut the binding, and then use a duplexing scanner to email them to myself as a pdf document. I have a tablet pc, so that allows me to easily mark up and search each document. The best part is, you can buy a cheap highlighted copy of the books because the scanner doesn't pick up the highlighting.
What I do is this:
I take all my books to Kinko's, have them cut the binding, and then use a duplexing scanner to email them to myself as a pdf document. I have a tablet pc, so that allows me to easily mark up and search each document. The best part is, you can buy a cheap highlighted copy of the books because the scanner doesn't pick up the highlighting.
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Re: The Nook
Aqualibrium wrote:ereaders are no good for large books that you need to search, access quickly, or mark-up. That said, I haven't seen any of my law books available for purchase in eformat.
What I do is this:
I take all my books to Kinko's, have them cut the binding, and then use a duplexing scanner to email them to myself as a pdf document. I have a tablet pc, so that allows me to easily mark up and search each document. The best part is, you can buy a cheap highlighted copy of the books because the scanner doesn't pick up the highlighting.
That is dedication. You seriously do that?
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Every semester. Takes about 15 mins to scan 400 hundred or so pages. The auto document feeder on the industrial copiers that most schools have makes it pretty easy to do. Just put the stack of papers in and walk away.JaLeCa wrote:Aqualibrium wrote:ereaders are no good for large books that you need to search, access quickly, or mark-up. That said, I haven't seen any of my law books available for purchase in eformat.
What I do is this:
I take all my books to Kinko's, have them cut the binding, and then use a duplexing scanner to email them to myself as a pdf document. I have a tablet pc, so that allows me to easily mark up and search each document. The best part is, you can buy a cheap highlighted copy of the books because the scanner doesn't pick up the highlighting.
That is dedication. You seriously do that?
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Aqualibrium wrote:ereaders are no good for large books that you need to search, access quickly, or mark-up. That said, I haven't seen any of my law books available for purchase in eformat.
What I do is this:
I take all my books to Kinko's, have them cut the binding, and then use a duplexing scanner to email them to myself as a pdf document. I have a tablet pc, so that allows me to easily mark up and search each document. The best part is, you can buy a cheap highlighted copy of the books because the scanner doesn't pick up the highlighting.
This is a great fucking idea. wow
I'm so glad I stumbled upon a site full of gunners haha
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jd20132013 wrote:Aqualibrium wrote:ereaders are no good for large books that you need to search, access quickly, or mark-up. That said, I haven't seen any of my law books available for purchase in eformat.
What I do is this:
I take all my books to Kinko's, have them cut the binding, and then use a duplexing scanner to email them to myself as a pdf document. I have a tablet pc, so that allows me to easily mark up and search each document. The best part is, you can buy a cheap highlighted copy of the books because the scanner doesn't pick up the highlighting.
This is a great fucking idea. wow
I'm so glad I stumbled upon a site full of gunners haha
Lol I'm no gunner, just a geek.
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Pft. Real geeks code themselves an algorithm to scan the pages in a Fibonacci sequence.. you know, because that's all you need to read, yo.Aqualibrium wrote:jd20132013 wrote:Aqualibrium wrote:ereaders are no good for large books that you need to search, access quickly, or mark-up. That said, I haven't seen any of my law books available for purchase in eformat.
What I do is this:
I take all my books to Kinko's, have them cut the binding, and then use a duplexing scanner to email them to myself as a pdf document. I have a tablet pc, so that allows me to easily mark up and search each document. The best part is, you can buy a cheap highlighted copy of the books because the scanner doesn't pick up the highlighting.
This is a great fucking idea. wow
I'm so glad I stumbled upon a site full of gunners haha
Lol I'm no gunner, just a geek.
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Re: The Nook
anti-iPad trollingResolutePear wrote:Your eyes will melt after reading it for 5 hours straight.thegor1987 wrote:iPad.
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anti-anti-iPad trollingthegor1987 wrote:anti-iPad trollingResolutePear wrote:Your eyes will melt after reading it for 5 hours straight.thegor1987 wrote:iPad.
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Currently trolling on my iPad...ResolutePear wrote:anti-anti-iPad trollingthegor1987 wrote:anti-iPad trollingResolutePear wrote:Your eyes will melt after reading it for 5 hours straight.thegor1987 wrote:iPad.
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I also took my books to FedEx Office (formerly Kinko's) and have the bindings cut. Then I create little booklets out of the chapters and only carry what I need.JaLeCa wrote:Aqualibrium wrote:ereaders are no good for large books that you need to search, access quickly, or mark-up. That said, I haven't seen any of my law books available for purchase in eformat.
What I do is this:
I take all my books to Kinko's, have them cut the binding, and then use a duplexing scanner to email them to myself as a pdf document. I have a tablet pc, so that allows me to easily mark up and search each document. The best part is, you can buy a cheap highlighted copy of the books because the scanner doesn't pick up the highlighting.
That is dedication. You seriously do that?
I have a Xerox high-speed duplex scanner, but never bother to make PDFs, although it only takes a few minutes, so I might do that this semester.
This solution is much better than a Kindle. You have the physical book to mark up, plus a searchable PDF file.
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Ipad's are nice and so are more traditional e-readers. However, I would not want to read a casebook on any e-reader. Simply put, e-readers are wonderful for reading novels, but we really use our casebooks. I could not imagine book briefing my cases on an e-reader. Perhaps this will change for future generations as e-readers improve. For now though, I would recommend you stick to the regular case books.
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I think it would be nifty if they would include a free ebook with every casebook purchase.random5483 wrote:Ipad's are nice and so are more traditional e-readers. However, I would not want to read a casebook on any e-reader. Simply put, e-readers are wonderful for reading novels, but we really use our casebooks. I could not imagine book briefing my cases on an e-reader. Perhaps this will change for future generations as e-readers improve. For now though, I would recommend you stick to the regular case books.
I'd totally be behind the iPad, had it come with OSX and not iOS since that would have made this a possibility thanks to Adobe Acrobat's strong proofing tools.
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My civpro book came that way. I used it a lot at the beginning of the year when I was still struggling with legal terms(I could look them up just by clicking on the word instead of flipping through Black's). I don't use it anymore, though, because I can't mark it up enough and we arent allowed to have electronic devices in that class. That is another problem OP could run into; some of his profs may not allow ereaders...then what?ResolutePear wrote: I think it would be nifty if they would include a free ebook with every casebook purchase.
Seriously? What are you waiting for?
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