ipad and path textbooks

[sweetymd]

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just bought an ipad. thought it would be great for reading path textbooks. hate carryinbg around 10 pound books everywhere.

i use my online access code to read sternberg online. just tried doin it w the ipad and realized that the site uses flash. any workaround to this 4 sternberg?

thanks!

 

[Ombret]

Our medical library has some kind of subscription that gives access to many path (and other) texts as e-books. You can actually download each chapter as a PDF and save it to your computer or iPad. In fact our residents are talking about getting iPads for this exact purpose.

It seems too good to be true. You would think everyone would just download everything and, I guess, post it to the web, thus letting pirated e-books run rampant---not from my sainted institution of course, but presumably our dastardly competitors. In practice it's apparently just enough trouble to stitch all fifty chapters together that people are not doing it.

I mention this because maybe you are at a place that has something similar. But if all you have is run of the mill inside-cover-scratch-off access, I think you are up against a dead end, because yes, the Lippincott websites use flash.

 

[psycho path]

just bought an ipad. thought it would be great for reading path textbooks. hate carryinbg around 10 pound books everywhere.

i use my online access code to read sternberg online. just tried doin it w the ipad and realized that the site uses flash. any workaround to this 4 sternberg?

thanks!

I personally didn`t find a way around flash using Ipad. An alternative is downloading the pdf, if offered from your library. Of course, pdf has many limitations, personally i dislike pdf on small screen.

 

[eeynihs]

Figured I'd just continue this thread instead of starting a new one...

Any updates on being able to read path books on an iPad? I am a first year resident and just inherited one from my father (he upgraded, so I'm lucky enough to be the recipient of his old one!) and am trying to figure out of I should buy one of the 2-volume sets (Rosai vs. Sternberg) for my iPad instead of the hardcover books. In an ideal world, I'm hoping that since it will be easier to carry around, I'd be more likely to read it. However, I'm not so keen on the eBook format - I find the print version prettier than, say, what they'd look like in Kindle format.

Anyone know if I any of the 2-volume sets are available in PDF format for purchase? That would retain more of the published book look, but still be available for my iPad, I think...

Anyone out there use only eBooks for pathology reading? If so, what are your thoughts on it?

 

[Ombret]

Anyone know if I any of the 2-volume sets are available in PDF format for purchase? That would retain more of the published book look, but still be available for my iPad, I think...

USCAP has a deal (via their MyPath site I believe) that lets you subscribe to full-text Rosai on a time-limited basis. You only get it for a year, but it's only a hundred bucks. It's searchable and you can read it on your iPad or computer. Seems like a pretty good deal.

 

[malchik]

Figured I'd just continue this thread instead of starting a new one...

Any updates on being able to read path books on an iPad? I am a first year resident and just inherited one from my father (he upgraded, so I'm lucky enough to be the recipient of his old one!) and am trying to figure out of I should buy one of the 2-volume sets (Rosai vs. Sternberg) for my iPad instead of the hardcover books. In an ideal world, I'm hoping that since it will be easier to carry around, I'd be more likely to read it. However, I'm not so keen on the eBook format - I find the print version prettier than, say, what they'd look like in Kindle format.

Anyone know if I any of the 2-volume sets are available in PDF format for purchase? That would retain more of the published book look, but still be available for my iPad, I think...

Anyone out there use only eBooks for pathology reading? If so, what are your thoughts on it?

If the iPad version of Sternberg works reasonably well, I would say go for it. I find the book difficult to read because the font is small and so are many of the pictures. Let us know how it turns out. I use my iPad with an online version of an Expert Consult book, and it doesn't work very well, with some text being cut off and navigation cumbersome.

 

[KCShaw]

I would generally suggest an e-book of some sort, even if using it with the kindle or nook viewing software, depending on how you get it, over a PDF. However, PDF is still pretty good over the hard copy for a lot of things. That said I've only really used a few PDF textbooks, and some very very old public domain google reader/play books/whatever they call it, "texts" (old scanned forensic stuff) on various android based devices. Unfortunately I'm not sure many large modern textbooks are available as proper e-books (rather than just html/flash based web access), nor as a PDF, unless things have changed with the newest editions. This might change with HTML5, but that might not help anyone for a little while yet.

 

[eeynihs]

All the major 2-volume sets are available in some sort of eBook format (whether it be Kindle, Nook, Googlw Play, etc). However, I find that the readers for iPad are just not visually pleasing... Every single page loos the same - you lose the nice layout seen in print. I suppose that's why I'm in search of a PDF format for the same books, where the pages on an iPad look like what they'd look like in print.

I'm using Good Reader to annotate PDFs of all the journal articles I'm reading and really like it. I can highlight, write in margins, etc. Now if only there was a way to do the same on a larger scale for textbooks!

(I just realized that Good Reader can't open DRM-protected PDFs, so I can't use that app to open purchased PDFs anyway, so my search of path books for sale in PDF format may be a moot point.)

 

[Rete]

I haven't had much luck with Sternberg, but I use several of the "diagnostic pathology" series by amirsys and they are great on the ipad, FWIW.

 

[KCShaw]

Dunno about iDevices, but for most other computers or devices I would think one should be able to find a program that can edit a layer on top of a DRM protected PDF... But, might have to pay for it. Can't say I've had to try though, so no personal experience.

 

[deleted432032]

I do know that if you have access to a protected PDF and can open it you can print it to your computer as a PDF for free. Some of the quality is lost when doing this, but it does give you a copy that is more easily readable with iDevices like the iPad.

 

[Ntzach]

I strongly recommend PDF expert for iPad2. I haven't had any problems yet. I can open, read, highlight, save, write, underline, copy/paste, make annotations and so on with all my pdf files, including ebooks and articles that can normally be opened in a conventional pc

 

[Rysukosan]

Download Puffin it's a browser that supports flash on the ipad but it definitely has its glitches. There is also Skyfire I believe, I haven't tried this one but I've tried puffin and it has only had one glitch thus far.