There are two articles in the Los Angeles Times today on textbooks Study Smart With These Sites David Colker There's a wealth of free reference information -- even entire books -- on the Web that students will find useful. Here are some of the best links. Debate Over Textbook Costs Isn't Just Academic By Kathy M. Kristof As students pay more each year, publishers and professors blame each other for rising prices that partly reflect CDs and other add-ons. Visit http://www.latimes.com/business/?track=hpleftnav-business for details.
Many advanced course use "readings" - papers and excerpts collected under fair use. With the ubiquity of classroom laptop computers, I wonder when we'll see these distributed in the form of CD-ROMs? This would allow cheaper electronic reading - print out at the users option (and added cost). -Orson
That's one of the reasons I liked Heriot-Watt. All of their texts are in PDF. If I can't remeber the details of something, I can do a search and it will bring me to the exact places in the books. For actual studying however, I still prefer paper.
