Textbooks AND Ebooks

[hannah87]

Hello all! I just got my book list for my first semester and it requires both the hard copy textbook AND ebook format for each of the texts. I was just wondering if anybody else is required to purchase both and is this standard for most schools? Those of you who have used both, are they exactly the same just two different formats? I'm having a hard time rationalizing the purchase of both--its expensive and seems unnecessary to me. I would really appreciate any feedback!

[dee78]

Most of the textbooks I've bought include a free e-book. I only opened each of my books a handful of times this past semester. I studied from powerpoints and audios. Our primary instructor actually told us to decide whether or not the few questions that some instructors throw in from the textbook is worth the time to read through the texts. For me it isn't, I am better off just knowing the powerpoints and hope that I am a good guesser.

Are they really going to know if you have the ebook? The ebooks do usually offer some extra resources and those can be helpful. I also like the search engines on some of them, makes it easy to answer study guides.

[hannah87]

Thank you for your reply! I've just ordered the hard copies for now since I can easily download the ebooks if necessary. I'm hoping there was some sort of break down in communication and they don't expect us to have two copies of each book! Thanks again!