[blindlaw] accessing textbooks while in law school

[Laura Wolk]

michael,

i used this strategy myself during undergrad [though i did all of my
own scanning]. in this fashion i spent $0 on textbooks throughout my
undergrad career.

unfortunately, that ship has sailed... just ask my bank account. :)

On 6/17/13, Michael Nowicki <mnowicki4 at icloud.com> wrote:
> 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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