Their biggest complaint: they felt as if they were reading a textbook on the Internet. Three out of 4 students still prefer a print textbook over the digital version, according to a survey of college students. The current selection of textbooks is limited, with most of the titles being high school textbooks. The nice thing about textbooks on the iPad is they can be accessed immediately after purchase no standing in lines at the bookstore or waiting for your books to ship.
Their goal is to make learning interactive and engaging by taking advantage of new media devices, like the iPad. They want to reinvent the textbook by looking at a digital textbook not as a book, but as software. This new technology enables learning assessment tools to be built into the textbook, like having interactive quizzes at the end of every chapter. Students also have the option of purchasing individual chapters for a few dollars each which comes in handy for those classes that only cover a few chapters of the book.
Their catalog has over fully-enhanced, interactive titles available, including some of the most popular titles for undergrad, MBA and medical students. They can download a sample or purchase the entire book with one tap for a fraction of the price of a paper textbook. Textbooks purchased from iBooks are immediately available on their bookshelf, right alongside their other books. They can even get alerts when publishers update content, and download new updates to textbooks, at no additional charge.
Browse iBooks Textbooks. Readers can manipulate 3D objects with a touch — so instead of seeing a cross section of a brain, they can see all sections. Callouts and pan-and-zoom features add even more to the experience. Instead of seeing just one image on the page, readers can swipe through an entire collection of interactive photos and captions with their fingertips.
They can navigate the gallery using photo thumbnails or step through images one at a time. Now that students can truly interact with a textbook, they need a new kind of study aid: one that helps them take notes and review content as they read. Overall, adopting a digital strategy with college textbooks should pay off over the long haul. But there are exceptions. The market for physical print can be a bit unpredictable. You might be able to find a great deal on Amazon or someone giving away the textbook you need on Craigslist.
The availability of eTextbooks should increase dramatically every year. Knowing where to buy eTextbooks is one of the biggest challenges to embracing digital books.
Whether you want to buy physical textbooks or eTextbooks, we found that college bookstores consistently had the worst prices on textbooks. However, only the book covers are visible. Mobile site: Yes? Formats: mobi, epub, lrf, pdf, online reader. Europeana is a popular platform with digitized artworks, books, and films from European libraries, museums, and cultural institutions. It includes almost 60 million items, out of which over 12 million are digitized texts of all kinds.
Opposite to the sites listed above, Europeana collects rare editions and other items you could only find in long-established libraries. Most books are offered in pdf format so this source is good only for iPad, and only if you use a book reading app that supports this file format. To find the book, simply write down the term in a search box. ManyBooks offers free books in a clean and friendly interface.
Most books are sourced from Project Gutenberg and sites that offer books with a Creative Commons license. Plus, each book is available in several file formats, a lot more than what you can find elsewhere. There are two disadvantages to keep in mind. First, the site displays ads. Secondly, you have to sign up if you want to download the files. There is also an online reader, but sometimes you will have to wait too long until it loads the content. Mobile site: Yes, online reader available?
Formats: epub, mobi, and many others. This is another site that makes searching for free ebooks a bit easier. The books are shown by category right in the front page, so you can quickly get an idea how many titles are in a topic you are most interested in.
Unfortunately, the site recently started displaying ads, and it makes using it much less pleasant. BookRix is a platform that offers books from self-published authors combined with free books from the public domain. A catalog of free downloadable ebooks is an essential part of the website. When you enter a category, you will see books sorted by the popularity. On top, you will see free books offered by contemporary authors.
Most classic titles are included in the Fiction category. Also, some self-published books are not available for download; you can only read them online in your browser. This feature works on mobile devices, as well. Mobile site: Yes, browser reader available? Formats: epub. There are over 1, books that are free to download, but to do that, you have to sign up.
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