[blindlaw] accessing textbooks while in law school

[Gerard Sadlier]

Does Kindle have many of the standard textbooks?

Nicholas, as I understand that you're based in Australia, I'd be
particularly interested in your comments as I'm based in Ireland where
English and Australian texts would be more used than US works, in
ordinary practice.

Thanks

Ger


On 6/16/13, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.parsons at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Kindle app for iPHone, iPad and iPod Touch is brilliant and completely
> accessible. You can read your books, take notes, look up words in its
> dictionary, and check what print page number you're on. Whether or not you
> can easily navigate by chapter and sub-section via the table of contents
> depends on how the publisher has formatted the book. But most new law books
> are properly formatted with hyperlinked tables of contents. The Kindle Store
> also has plenty of great law books. The one downside is that you can't read
> footnotes and as someone else mentioned these can be really important for
> law books.
>
> iBooks is another highly accessible option but the iBooks Store does not
> have many law books. It does, however, read DRM free PDFs. I often get PDFs
> of law textbooks from publishers and then read them with iBooks. The
> footnotes just appear at the bottom of the page like ordinary text. I would,
> however, suggest you ask the publishers to provide properly formatted,
> hyperlinked tables of contents though if you do this. The other downside
> with iBooks is that it doesn't necessarily tell you which print page number
> you're on, unless it is written in the text of the page. However, Adobe
> Reader on Windows with JAWS will give you this information if it has been
> formatted properly.
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