Hi, although pdf version of textbooks can be downloaded easily for free, I found it dificult to study from the iPad. I may end up spending money to buy hard copy of textbooks. Anybody has the same experience?
With iPad, I don't need to carry heavy books and I get the pdf for free. I can also use LiquidText app (bought the pro verison but have not actually used it). However, I found it difficult to study using an iPad. It just feels "strange".
I much prefer the electronic version of all documents. Throw them in one of the notebook apps and I can rearrange, add, subtract, and annotate till the cows come home. I’m currently taking a class where the professor doesn’t like electronics and is big on hand outs. I feel like a caveman.
I’ve used tablets (Nexus 7, Surface 3, iPad Pro) almost continuously for education since 2014. Except for the Nexus 7, I’ve always used hand written notes and diagrams for my studies. For consumption of text, being able to electronically highlight, bookmark, and add integrated notes beats my experience with physical books.Agreed.
They have their uses, but I would recommend (and I am a former college teacher) that you use both methods - tablet and hard copies as suits and as you need.
The two can exist side by side, without in any way undermining one another, just as radio still exists alongside TV.
However, I find that I actually read documents differently in different media; thus, when reading online, online, I race through a text, almost scavenging it - there is rarely any pleasure taken in reading online, rather, it is something I do because that is where I find the information in a convenient format.
But, for memorising material, I far prefer a hard copy, a book or actual paper publication.
Re "cavemen", try this: Do you find it easier to recall material if you write it by hand (I do) or when you type it on a tablet or computer?
Likewise, I, personally, find material far easier to recall if I read it in a hard copy version than if I read it online. Now, I will concede that I long predate the computer age, and was already well into postgraduate studies before the use of computers became widespread.
I’ve used tablets (Nexus 7, Surface 3, iPad Pro) almost continuously for education since 2014. Except for the Nexus 7, I’ve always used hand written notes and diagrams for my studies. For consumption of text, being able to electronically highlight, bookmark, and add integrated notes beats my experience with physical books.
And best of all, I can access those notes when needed via a browser on any device, anywhere.
For those who go back and forth between electronic version and hard copy of the same textbook, do you double the work of highlighting and note taking on both versions? How do you sync between digital and hard copy versions?
I’ve told this story here before, but I used to be very anti-digital technical manuals (associated with aviation), until I discovered pdf searching, which was tremendously more convienent that lugging around, and flipping through an oversized 3lb brick.Hi, although pdf version of textbooks can be downloaded easily for free, I found it dificult to study from the iPad. I may end up spending money to buy hard copy of textbooks. Anybody has the same experience?
I've tried to study from my iPad but my eyes... I switched back to a book because of that.Hi, although pdf version of textbooks can be downloaded easily for free, I found it dificult to study from the iPad. I may end up spending money to buy hard copy of textbooks. Anybody has the same experience?