Can you put textbooks on a kindle

If your college classes include novels, journals, and literature, then the Oasis is perfect for you. However, being an e-reader, the Oasis is only a solid option for the front-to-back style textbook.

If your course includes textbooks that include a lot of images, graphs, and tables, then you may need to look elsewhere. Instead, you should look to buy a tablet. Here at BookSummaryClub I summarize my favorite non-fiction books into easily digested posts. Head across to one of the following pages for more goodies.

All Right Reserved. Categories: Product Reviews. And please put "Ask Maggie" in the subject header. You can also follow me on Facebook on my Ask Maggie page. Dear Maggie, I have a daughter in college and was wondering which tablet is better for textbooks.

That said, I don't want to get her an iPad. So really it's between a Nook Tablet or a Kindle Fire. She plans on studying abroad next fall. And we thought an e-reader would save some room in her two suitcases, since she wouldn't have to pack them. What would you recommend? Dear Monique, This is a tricky question because not all e-textbooks are offered on all tablet or e-reader platforms. Many are offered only for PCs and not available on tablets at all.

However, sometimes the way the content is rendered is not always ideal. As I researched the answer to your question, I found customers complaining on Amazon's forums about the text not being formatted right for the Kindle, so some diagrams may be hard to see and references to certain pages will be useless in the Kindle. I know you're not interested in getting your daughter an iPad, but it may be something to consider. There are some textbooks offered through Apple's iBook catalog on iTunes.

You can also buy books for the Amazon Kindle App for the iPad. And Google ebooks can also be accessed via an app for the iPad. There are also apps from sites, such as Chegg. But before you go out and buy her a tablet, you need to do a little homework. First, find out out which textbooks your daughter needs. I know I said that they don't offer any textbooks as e-books for the Nook or the Nook app, but some of the books that your daughter is required to read for her classes may not necessarily be textbooks.

For example, The Scarlet Letter or a biography of Winston Churchill are not considered textbooks, but they could be required reading for certain college classes. Once you know which books, if any, are offered on which platforms, you can make a better decision in terms of the tablet you should get. Personally, I think it's a little too soon to invest in a tablet solely for the purpose of accessing textbooks.

And the reason I say this is that right now it seems very hit or miss in terms of which books are offered on which platforms and devices. I think if your daughter is really interested in getting the most out of an e-book, such as highlighting, book marking and taking notes in her e-book, she should just download whatever e-books she can for her classes onto her computer.

As I mentioned before, the Nook offers a free app that can be downloaded onto a Mac or PC to access textbooks. There are also the third-party textbook sites I mentioned earlier too that allow you to either buy or rent textbooks as e-books.

Since your daughter already has a MacBook Pro, you won't even need to buy her a new device to access this stuff. Amazon allows e-book purchases while traveling overseas so long as the credit card used for the account is based in the U. Doing so will prompt the eBook to move onto your Kindle as long as the Kindle itself is connected to Wi-Fi.

Method 2. Click the Preferences tab. It's at the top of the page. Scroll down and click Personal Document Settings. You'll find this heading near the middle of the page.

Clicking it prompts several options to appear below the heading. Click the Add a new approved e-mail address link. It's at the bottom of the Personal Document Settings heading's section.

If you already have an email address here, make sure you know what it is, then skip the next step. Add an email address. Type in the email address that you use for your Kindle, then click Add Address.

Open your preferred email inbox on your computer. This can be literally any email inbox e. Create a new email. Click the New or Compose button to open a new email, then add your Kindle's email address to the "To" text field. Add your eBook as an attachment. Send your email. Click the Send button to do so. As long as your Kindle is connected to Wi-Fi, the eBook will be received and downloaded onto your Kindle.

Method 3. Download an eBook from Amazon. Click OK. Convert your eBook if necessary. Select the proper file-to-file converter on the left side of the page. Click Add File Select your eBook's file. Copy the MOBI file. Connect your Kindle to your computer. Plug the charging end of your Kindle's charger cable into the Kindle, then plug the USB end of the cable into your computer. Open the Kindle. Open the "Documents" folder. Double-click the "Documents" or "Internal Documents" folder that's in your Kindle's storage folder to do so.

If you're using a Kindle Fire, you'll open the "Books" folder instead. Paste in the MOBI file. Wait for the MOBI file to finish transferring. When the indicator light on your Kindle's cable stops blinking, you can proceed. Eject your Kindle. Try connecting your Kindle via USB cable to your computer.