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Digital Textbooks for College?

Posted by Cliff on from the lifting-the-load-out-of-your-backpack dept.

doggkruse asks: "I recently purchased textbooks for the current semester in college only to end up with an empty wallet and a sore back. I have been looking into digital textbooks so that I will not have to lug around the real ones any more. I have found one site that seems to offer a very limited number of digital books. Does anyone know of a more complete solution. Especially one that works with Mac OS X. As laptops in classes are becoming more prolific, I think it is time to ditch the paper and save my wallet."

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  1. Re:They'll cost as much or more than the paper one by user+no.+590291 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And they'll have no resale value, because they'll be DRM'd out the ass.