Using a Kindle to read text books for uni?

[Hunders]

As I'm now back to university for my second year I've been looking for text books. I notice that almost all of the books that I'm looking at are also available in Kindle format so I'm sat here contemplating buying one. The savings to be made from buying the cheaper Kindle books will soon total more than the initial outlay of the Kindle itself, saving me money and desk space which books would take up.

I'm unsure though whether a Kindle will be a good replacement for an actual hard copy of a text book. Does anyone here have a Kindle that they use for this sort of thing and if so, what do you make of it?

Cheers.

 

[Hunders]

My initial thoughts were that other than expense, paper books would be better because of some of the reasons that PhillyDee mentioned but as I have never used a Kindle before I don't know if they have any features that deal with things like that.

It was just a thought but after hearing what people say it seems like a Kindle, as useful as they may be, are not suited to text books.

Cheers people.