[blindlaw] accessing textbooks while in law school

[Michael Nowicki]

Hi all,

I am still finishing my undergraduate degree and I will be applying to law
schools next year, but I thought I would share one useful strategy I
sometimes rely on when I am unable to obtain textbooks in electronic format,
which no one brought up thus far.  Because the disability office at my
school scans textbooks for students who qualify for this service and because
the office does not require proof of purchase in order to do so, I am able
to check out any textbooks that are available through the university
library, which I subsequently drop off at the office, and when they are
converted, I simply return them.  Consequently, I don't have to worry about
buying books and then reselling them if I can get my hands on a print copy
for free.  I hope this helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gerard
Sadlier
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 6:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] accessing textbooks while in law school

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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