IT Textbook Source Needed

[Merlin]

Thanks for all your help! Unfortunately, two of his texts were bundles created specifically for his school/instructor, so I wasn't able to find them via the usual sources. I did manage to save $150 over the school bookstore price, so I was very happy with that savings. I would have liked to save more, but hey, $500 in books is better than $650. I personally don't care for e-books for myself for texts because I can't make notes. I did purchase a Kindle for my daughter for her birthday and I plan on borrowing it and trying out a few books on it. Maybe that will change my mindset about e-books. Thanks again for all the great suggestions. I have bookmarked them all for future use!

I think e-books are nice, most allow you to highlight without issue. In fact I prefer the e-books if I will be highlighting since I hate marking up books! (I'm a book collector so it just gets under my skin.) Where I can't use e-books I take notes on paper outside the book anyway. The rental e-books can be a pain since they go away when the rental is over but so would the real book.

I have one of my textbooks in kindle format, and it works pretty well. It is a bit cumbersome to move back and forth between chapters on the kindle device itself, if you're looking to do that, but you can easily highlight things if you wish. Another nice kindle feature is when you're using the kindle app on your computer (instead of the device itself) you can highlight text and cut & paste from it, so if you're writing a report or something, you can easily quote from your sources. It even inserts it into your document with the proper APA/MLA quoting format and citations. You don't even need to own an actual Kindle to use that.