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Hey folks,

I've been considering buying a kindle fire and scanning all of my casebooks (etc.) into pdf format so I could leave all of my books and such at home. Does anybody have any experience doing this? Recommendations on a different tablet? Better use for $200? Obviously, it would primarily be for portability, but I don't have any experience with tablets so I don't know how the resolution would be, and if it would be practical for doing in depth reading. Thanks.

I personally take lots of notes in the casebooks right next to the relevent text, so a tablet wouldn't work well for me. Also, when are you going to find time to scan the roughly 5000 pages of assigned reading for your first year?

Also, if you can take your book into a class but they prohibit electronic items, good luck with all the missed notes you could have jotted down in the book.

Well I was thinking of using a rapid feed scanner. I'd have to cut the bindings though.... But thats interesting that you would take notes in the books. I hadn't thought of that.

You probably don't want to cut the bindings out of 800 dollars worth of books. Highlighting and book-briefing are your friend and so is selling back your books when possible

murray18 wrote:Well I was thinking of using a rapid feed scanner. I'd have to cut the bindings though.... But thats interesting that you would take notes in the books. I hadn't thought of that.

That's so last century... hahaha

Bulls wrote:You probably don't want to cut the bindings out of 800 dollars worth of books. Highlighting and book-briefing are your friend and so is selling back your books when possible

But if you can get the book divided up and rebound into sections, that makes it a lot easier on you than carrying 60 lbs of books to school a day.

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I have a Fire, and I like it. However, for the above-mentioned reasons (mostly the difficulty in flipping back and forth), I decided not to scan pages into the Fire.

I did use the Fire for one class because the book was available in Kindle format. One good thing about that is that you can search for specific words very quickly.

presh wrote:I wouldn't recommend using electronic versions of books for class. There can be a fair amount of flipping back and forth between cases, and that is still not really easy to do in an e-book if you unless you remember the exact page number of every case.

So credited. Flipping through a PDF on your computer or your iPad can be a huge pain in the ass.

Scanned versions of your books however are excellent for when you're outlining.