I am currently working on my PhD in mechanical engineering here at Mississippi State University. There's several books that I need to read, and the cost of books is starting to add up. I was considering purchasing an iPad or kindle for a few reasons but wanted to hear from seasoned users;
Lower the cost of my textbooks (required and supplementary reading). Does anybody use on for this purpose and how many texts are available for each (relatively speaking), when requesting to add one to the kindle database is it usually added. Does one have more texts available than the other and which one is cheaper to download books.
Make night reading easier, I'm assuming these are both backlit so I don't need to use my iPhone to light up the pages I'm reading as I'm falling asleep.
Reduce the amount of clutter when researching or working on a problem. All of my books in one place so I don't have to rifle through stacks of books. I was wondering can you highlight notes and bookmark pages in either of these rather easily. Can you have more than one book open at a time?
If I buy one or the other I will only be using it to read as I have an iPhone already and a really good laptop. Which would be the better investment, I'm leaning more towards a kindle due to the lower initial cost but I don't know much about available books for the iPad and how much they cost. A lot of the books I have now are not yet available in the kindle versions.
Thanks,
Brandon
Lower the cost of my textbooks (required and supplementary reading). Does anybody use on for this purpose and how many texts are available for each (relatively speaking), when requesting to add one to the kindle database is it usually added. Does one have more texts available than the other and which one is cheaper to download books.
Make night reading easier, I'm assuming these are both backlit so I don't need to use my iPhone to light up the pages I'm reading as I'm falling asleep.
Reduce the amount of clutter when researching or working on a problem. All of my books in one place so I don't have to rifle through stacks of books. I was wondering can you highlight notes and bookmark pages in either of these rather easily. Can you have more than one book open at a time?
If I buy one or the other I will only be using it to read as I have an iPhone already and a really good laptop. Which would be the better investment, I'm leaning more towards a kindle due to the lower initial cost but I don't know much about available books for the iPad and how much they cost. A lot of the books I have now are not yet available in the kindle versions.
Thanks,
Brandon