Technology Kindle/eReader's usefullness in Medical School

[Baylor2012]

In your opinion how useful would the Amazon Kindle be when it comes to reading course material on an eBook? Regardless of course material, would you use it more or less for your everyday reading in med school? It definitely saves alot of space.

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[clinicallabguy]

I thought about getting one, because I agree that it would be great to have a portable device the thickness of a magazine rather than multiple thick books to carry around.

However, most medical textbooks are not available on the kindle. And it being a black and white screen means that graphic stuff in textbooks may not be as easy to understand. That was a strike against it.

At my school our syllabi for classes are printed, but are also available on a website in .doc or .pdf form. So I could potentially put my syllabi on a kindle (you can put pdf's on them, correct?), which would be nice. However, each individual lecture comes in its own file, meaning that I would have to load up dozens of pdf files to a kindle if I got one. That's too much effort for me. If you find out that you get the entire syllabus in one pdf, then perhaps a kindle might work out for you.

Many people also like to write/highlight their syllabi or textbooks, and you obviously can't do that on a kindle. That's not a big deal for me, though. I'm not much of a highlighter, or annotator of syllabi.

 

[DOctorJay]

ipad would be more useful, though slightly less so than an actual laptop

 

[justaregularmed]

The PDF support is nearly usable, but not really, MAYBE if you get a DX but I cant vouch for it. If you want it for a commute or to maintain your sanity, then by all means, but not for medical school.

 

[Jolie South]

I think an iPod touch/iPhone would be more useful in that regard. A lot books are available by PDF. It's smaller than a kindle and is much more versatile in that you can get other medical software as well. I liked using it on the wards when I wanted to read but hated carrying around an actual book.

 

[HappyG0Lucky]

I think an iPod touch/iPhone would be more useful in that regard. A lot books are available by PDF. It's smaller than a kindle and is much more versatile in that you can get other medical software as well. I liked using it on the wards when I wanted to read but hated carrying around an actual book.

Just curious - any recommendations for books for Kindle? I've had mine for almost a year but haven't used it for school yet. I am on the wards and haven't found any clerkship review books available for e-reader but maybe I am missing some.

 

[Tiktaalik]

Just curious - any recommendations for books for Kindle? I've had mine for almost a year but haven't used it for school yet. I am on the wards and haven't found any clerkship review books available for e-reader but maybe I am missing some.

I'm afraid the Kindle is more targeted towards general entertainment reading (novels, nonfiction books, etc), so you may be a bit out of luck.

 

[predmed123]

I've been thinking of getting one since it seems like an incredibly convenient way to keep all my class notes in one place and not have to bother lugging my laptop or a stack of printed notes with me. Bulk of our exams are tested from class notes so I'd basically be using it as a pdf reader and not really for textbooks.

I only wish it had a color screen but a lot of my classmates end up printing the notes in black and white anyways and they get along just fine.

 

[DOctorJay]

ipad + noterize is sweet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQh0fl56E10