Well, I did it. This Mac girl finally jumped on the iPad bandwagon and I am blogging from it right now. My new black, sleek, user friendly iPad is my new best friend (sorry A!). This little rectangle that is only a pound or two is replacing 3 of my 4 MASSIVE science textbooks, you know the ones that weight five hundred pounds that you must lift with your legs or you'll throw your back out? Instead of those ungodly books I just download them into this great little box, and stuff it into my purse before walking out the door. And just like hardcopy books I can still highlight and annotate right in the text. Plus I can search the text for specific words, phrases, or annotations!
Better yet, with the apps available I can use this as my notebook. I can take notes that sync up the recordings of my professors,lectures so that when I click on a section of my notes I have the option of playing the portion of the lecture that was recorded while I was taking that particular section of notes. How cool and amazingly useful is that?!
So why is this blog worthy you ask (aside from the fact that it fulfills my new-thing-for-the-week requirement)? Well as it turns out, there might be a slight hitch in my giddyup... I may be returning this great little device (14 day return policy) if I cannot permanently download my textbooks. It appears that some distributors only let you RENT the textbooks for a given amount of time. Which is completely useless to someone who will be studying for the MCAT and need to refer back to old textbooks and notes. I will be calling one of the main distributors tomorrow when they are open to see what's up with that fishy business and will keep you posted.
iPad freak signing off :)
Update: Apparently the iPad does not like to format in Blogger (i.e. this was one large block of sentences) so I had to come back in on the Mac and revise it a bit. So there are limitations. But overall still very happy. Here's hoping rent-a-book is just an option for poor college students and not a requirement for e-textbooks...
