So, you think your college will have e-text books...
...and you want to know more about how folks are already accessing them. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently posted a story about how Northwest Missouri State University is trying to deliver all of its textbooks electronically.
From the article:
Tania Brobst, a junior at the university, is proud of the note-taking techniques she's developed over the years. She crafts typed study guides for each of her courses, and she carefully highlights material in her printed textbooks.
When she ended up in a marketing course this spring that required her to use a digital textbook, she had to adapt her strategies. "It took some experimenting on my part," she said. "I mean, you can easily read it, but if you want to highlight or enlarge the text or share your notes with other people," you have to learn to do that. Initially skeptical, she now says she prefers the electronic version in part because of its search feature and the ability to paste passages into a Microsoft Word document.
Click on http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i39/39a01801.htm to read more.