http://www.aashe.org/blog/campus-culture/would-or-do-you-use-electronic-textbooks Ideas and commentary from the campus sustainability community Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:29:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.aashe.org/blog/campus-culture/would-or-do-you-use-electronic-textbooks#comment-8504 Zoe Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:01:32 +0000 http://www.aashe.net/staffblog/campus-culture/would-or-do-you-use-electronic-textbooks#comment-8504 I've never tried digital textbooks I usually buy them from a price comparison site like www.cheapesttextbooks.com I’ve never tried digital textbooks I usually buy them from a price comparison site like http://www.cheapesttextbooks.com

]]> http://www.aashe.org/blog/campus-culture/would-or-do-you-use-electronic-textbooks#comment-8447 lisas Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:24:14 +0000 http://www.aashe.net/staffblog/campus-culture/would-or-do-you-use-electronic-textbooks#comment-8447 e textbooks are interesting but the reality is students often printout handouts, etc. Along the lines of going paperless, kudos to National Institutes of Health (NIH).They have gone 100% electronic on grants submissions - thats >10,000 submissions x ~100 pages for a typical grant x 6 copies for reviewers & ever wasteful administrators, represents enormous savings of paper. In this vein, many meetings are now paperless from abstract submission to schedules etc e textbooks are interesting but the reality is students often printout handouts, etc. Along the lines of going paperless, kudos to National Institutes of Health (NIH).They have gone 100% electronic on grants submissions - thats >10,000 submissions x ~100 pages for a typical grant x 6 copies for reviewers & ever wasteful administrators, represents enormous savings of paper. In this vein, many meetings are now paperless from abstract submission to schedules etc

]]> http://www.aashe.org/blog/campus-culture/would-or-do-you-use-electronic-textbooks#comment-8406 Niles Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:31:30 +0000 http://www.aashe.net/staffblog/campus-culture/would-or-do-you-use-electronic-textbooks#comment-8406 Cool! Glad to hear it's working for you Chris. I can see other benefits now too, such as a lighter backpack load to lug around (instead of carrying a laptop and two or three heavy textbooks to class I could just carry the laptop). Thanks for posting! -Niles Cool! Glad to hear it’s working for you Chris. I can see other benefits now too, such as a lighter backpack load to lug around (instead of carrying a laptop and two or three heavy textbooks to class I could just carry the laptop).
Thanks for posting!
-Niles

]]> http://www.aashe.org/blog/campus-culture/would-or-do-you-use-electronic-textbooks#comment-8404 Chris Sherman Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:57:06 +0000 http://www.aashe.net/staffblog/campus-culture/would-or-do-you-use-electronic-textbooks#comment-8404 I would, and do! iChapters has saved me a ton of cash on my textbooks so far, and I love that I can take them with me on the laptop. I would, and do! iChapters has saved me a ton of cash on my textbooks so far, and I love that I can take them with me on the laptop.

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