Comments on: Princeton University to publish Kindle textbooks

University students should be hot for Amazon's e-reader, which can ease their backpack pain, help them pinpoint text, and maybe help them avoid the student bookstore.

[john55440]

School textbooks are the perfect application for Kindle. (I have been reading modern classics lately, and prefer "real" books.)

[Renegade Knight]

Can the kindle highlight text in multiple colors? No. Can it cross reference the questions in the back of the chapter with the answers in the chapter and not the page number of the related question near the question? Can it save that as a data file so students can share?

Can you annotate books with your own commentes, or corrections to the equation, or flaw in a theory? Can you notate what questions were in the test and may be worth another look for the final?

Hardcopy text books are hard to replace unless you are the kind who never needs them or uses them.

[aka_tripleB]

Are school offering discounts for the kindle? It would make sense for school to give $20-50 discounts to students so they wouldn't have to deal with books.

[ProKindle]

As a recent undergraduate and current graduate student, this is outstanding! I have been waiting for the digital textbook, whether downloaded to the laptop/computer or now, downloaded to a device like the Kindle, to take flight.

Students spend so much money on hard copy textbooks and reading materials, and often have to carry them all around which is not convenient or easy to do. Digital textbooks on the Kindle will make it so quick and easy for students to access any of their books or other resources whenever and wherever they need them.

I, myself, am a Kindle champion, and all in all, while $359 for this device plus the cost of the books etc. seems high, you are getting a great deal of value out of it. I can't wait for the textbooks to be offered for my courses at graduate school.

I recommend this to anyone and everyone, but especially for students considering this good news!

For more info on the Kindle, visit http://www.prokindle.com!

[eddblake]

I know loads of Kindle and DX owners are a bit annoyed that it?s still hard to find many publishers that offer proper textbooks for student owners like me. I just found this site a few weeks ago though, www.bookboon.com and these guys publish a huge range of textbooks and every single textbook is made available to download free of charge in a compatible pdf e-book format with no registration. It?s a totally 100% free textbook solution perfect for new Kindle owners like me looking for good and free academic content!

They actually just put up a new accounting series, really good used the ones on Liabilities and Equity and Balanced Scorecard this year as prep for my acca exams. There is also a facebook app with all the books on, http://apps.facebook.com/bookboon Check it out guys?