Sunday, November 21, 2010

The Next New Thing

I guess most of you had experience of borrowing textbooks and making copies from them in school library.  Since school only has a few copies of each textbook, if other students borrowed them out, you might need to wait until they returned the book. If school has all the textbooks in E-book version, then we can borrow them anytime while school library is opened. That sounds convenient for everyone of us because we do not need to wait at the long line or afraid of the book is out. Another advantage for E-book is that we do not need waste time on flipping over the book page by page while making copies. We can just print the pages we want from the computer.

In order to prevent violating the intellectual property, every student should have their log on to borrow the E-books. When the two hours time limit is over, the E-book should not be available for the borrower. Also, E-book can only read in school's computer and can not be save as a file. If our school library has this option for student, we can save a lot of time on waiting and copying the textbooks. Especially some professors only use partial of the textbook, no one would like to spend extra money on expensive books. School should consider this option for us.

5 comments:

  1. This is a great idea. The bookstore has some books in an online version but its for small classes. However, they are cheaper and better to use because you don't have to worry about carrying a heavy textbook or loosing loose leaf pages.

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  2. Actually, there is a website that offers e-books. I used this website a couple semester ago. Maybe you guys want to check it out. This is the web address http://www.coursesmart.com/

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  3. I would love to have that experience too. Carrying a 10 pounds textbook is so unnecessary and I think the publisher will eventually shift to digitization.

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  4. Thanks Firsty Darpi ... I took a look of the website that you suggested. It is great!

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  5. I think this is a great idea! Especially so the school's library can access it to the students only. I love how you thought of protecting intellectual property. Reading books, literature, and textbooks through the internet seems to be the future. Students won't even have to buy heavy textbooks anymore in the future.

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