E-books vs. paper textbooks. My school is offering a choice between regular textbooks

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I just had my orientation and found out that my school is offering 3 choices in buying the required textbooks. In all 3 cases you are getting all books for the entire program at once.

1. All hard copies in two large boxes.

2. All e-books preloaded on a tablet. About $100 cheaper than the hard copies and a lot easier to carry around. The price includes the tablet, but I don't know what kind.

3. All e-books loaded on a tablet you provide. About $500 cheaper than the hard copies but you still need to buy the tablet.

Has anyone tried all e-books? I'm trying to decide what to do. Neither option will be available until January, so I have some time to think about it.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Emergency Care.

Duplicate post, sorry

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.

Make sure you have unlimited access for your eBooks not just a yearly access!

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Personally I prefer hard copies but I'm old school. I like highlighting and marking up my own books. My school offers ebooks only for about $300 (1st semester only) or hard copies + ebooks for about $750. The ebook access is for life so that is a plus. If they don't give you lifetime access to ebooks I wouldn't get that only. I will be buying the hard copies + ebooks.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Emergency Care.

I love my ebooks from elsevier with the page burst app

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