I need real books!!!

I'll be the first to start the venting!  

My school charges a one-time fee of $1500 for all the books needed for the two year program.

But we only get two real books.  TWO!  The rest are e-books.    $1500 for e-books???

The two we get are Fundamentals and Med-Surg.  So I'm sitting here clicking around in the e-book version of my Pharmacology text trying to study for a test tomorrow but I can't focus on the boring format (no brightly colored boxes of important info scattered about) and instead I end up over on YouTube watching videos of cute little baby giraffes.  

So, I guess I'll be spending at least $100 a semester to buy an actual book.  I thought about renting them but I like to highlight and write in little notes.  

I sucked it up and ordered the hardcopy book for Pharm.

So . Much . Easier . To . Study!!!

I'm definitely like you when it comes to books. I like flipping the pages and highlighting!

Haha same here man. $1800 for the entire program's worth of books, but they're all e-books. I've never studied from a book personally, so the transition isn't as difficult for me as it might be for someone who is used to studying from a hard copy book. But yes, I know of several people who just caved and bought used, hard copy versions of the required text. Hey, whatever works!

I need a book as well. I love to highlight! Without book I probably wouldn't study unless it was a video or audio lecture. I wish they did more of those! Audio especially!

NurseMurse wrote:

I need a book as well. I love to highlight! Without book I probably wouldn't study unless it was a video or audio lecture. I wish they did more of those! Audio especially!

Does your program do mostly e-books or real books??

nursebass wrote:

Haha same here man. $1800 for the entire program's worth of books, but they're all e-books. I've never studied from a book personally, so the transition isn't as difficult for me as it might be for someone who is used to studying from a hard copy book. But yes, I know of several people who just caved and bought used, hard copy versions of the required text. Hey, whatever works!

How do you study if you don't really use the books? We have "adaptive quizzing" online for each chapter which is just NCLEX style questions and a lot of times those exact questions are on our tests so I study by answering question after question after question.....then if I come across something in a question that I don't understand, I use the book to read about it and refresh myself.