Monday, June 23, 2008

E-books

I would like to dedicate my first blog to inform other students the alternate way that is faster and more efficient for purchasing our class text, New Keywords. When the class ended, I’m still surprised there were a lot of students who were very concerned about not getting the book on time. Sure there is reserved one on the library, but I doubt people are going to borrow it since there is only one book available. The alternate way that I talked about is by downloading it from a website. The file is called “E-book” which stands for electronic book because we download it from a website and will be read from our personal computers. The E-book is less expensive because it contains a text file rather than papers and hardcover materials from physical book that I buy. Below are some information about E-book if anyone is interested, “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook,” and the site for downloading E-book, “http://www.ebooks.com.” My experiences using E-book are positive so far because I could save time from going to the bookstore and waiting in line, and is more space convenient because it uses less physical. Hopefully, when other people are more familiar with E-book, they will look forward to read more books in the future.

4 comments:

Colleen said...

That sounds very interesting. Thanks for telling us about them. I do have a question though. What is the cost of such e-books? Also, how do you highlight/make notes in the text?

Eddy said...

Hi colleen, thanks for commenting on my blog. The price is vary according to types of books, I could generalize that it might be 5 to 10 dollar cheaper.For the notes highlight, you can click on one of your blog and you can see "Customize" on the right top corner. From there you can customize any parts of the blog to whatever you desire.

Christopher Schaberg said...

I like how you used the links to educate your reader about this alternative reading format. Universities still have a strange relationship to material objects—bound paper books, I mean. In a way it seems to me as if there is a subconscious nostalgia for some sort of past educational/informational model, and we materialize this nostalgia in the form of books—lots of them. (Because really, as you point out, there are far more cheaper and 'greener' ways to read.)

Willy - Nilly said...

Thanks, Ward!! That's very informative! But too bad I'm already graduated... might not be able to use it.. =(
Good Luck!!