The applications, supplied with the phone, will provide instant access to "key medical text books".
Cuba published some 25 million books last year, though two-thirds of these were text books.
The students can download the all text books on any mobile device, including smart phones, tablets or laptops.
There is a computer room but learning is self study with text books.
More than 500 medical students at the University of Leeds are being issued with iPhones which can access online text books.
Examinations regulators, Ofqual, are planning to investigate potential conflicts of interest in the sector, particularly in relation to study aids such as text books and training services.
An aid organization donated 32 text books which we really appreciated and we are using those text books right across the grades, trying to impart knowledge to the kids.
Using the iPhones is a cost effective way of ensuring that students have the text books they need "at any time of day or night, wherever they are working", says the university.
Economic woes and depressed consumer confidence all signal that more and more people will begin to see the beauty in used merchandise, which could range from appliances to clothing to text books.
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Mobley banished teachers, podiums, text books, and tests.
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Books, text books and magazines.
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My father-in-law and I had a conversation about this a year or so ago, regarding the point that schools could assign an iPad or some like-device to each student, and all text books and assignments etc could be directly fed onto it, saving money and time and resources.
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Neat stacks of medical text books, a sharply-designed carrier bag from a clothes store, an English novel and pairs of smart shoes in the draughty bedroom of the 23-year-old Delhi gang rape victim, tell the story of a woman determined to make the leap to a middle class lifestyle for her and her family.
Something all the parties seem to be very ignorant to is that the student loan isn't enough for most students to live on, accommodation fees frequently take up most or all of a student loan, and even when they don't you certainly can't afford more than 2 text books a year before having to work or borrow extra money.
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Featuring a 212 ppi display, Kindle Paperwhite has 62% more pixels, making text in books and periodicals crisp and clear at any size.
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In the modern history of Mexico, for example, a big landmark was the introduction, 15 years ago, of text-books that were a bit less anti-American.
Featuring a 212 ppi display, Kindle Paperwhite has 62% more pixels than the previous generation Kindle, making text in books and periodicals crisp and clear at any size.
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Mr. Bradbury adapted his stories for TV, co-wrote the script for the 1956 film "Moby Dick" and produced children's books, poetry and text for coffee-table books.
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Google claimed at the time it was protected by the "fair use" principle because its book search engine showed only short snippets of text for the books it had scanned without permission.
Commercial buses in Lagos are mobile placards, bearing text drawn from Holy Books, local sayings and conventional wisdom.
The screens are black and white, and work by reflecting natural light instead of glowing themselves, mimicking the way text looks in paper books.
ReCaptcha takes a new approach: The project scans and digitizes thousands of pages of real-world text, including old books and the archives of TheNew York Times.
ReCaptcha takes a new approach: The project scans and digitizes thousands of pages of real-world text, including old books and the archives of The New York Times.
The RE-CAPTCHA security exercises at the bottom of transaction or comment pages actually are a crowd labor means of converting words from old books and documents into text.
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Dr Sheridon has come up with a so-called wand an electronic stick that can hold ten full-size books and also transfer text on to a sheet of Gyricon if a user runs the wand over the surface like a handheld scanner.
In the study, more than half the students reported feeling frustrated when highlighting text and taking notes within e-books on the iPad.
Of course, Gates used the keynote to announce plans of a new technological breakthrough - a font enhancement called ClearType that makes text on an LCD look like text on paper to improve e-books.
"But you can die of hope in Hollywood, " said Mr. Byrd, who then turned his attention to theater, boning up by going to the now-defunct Coliseum Books and buying every relevant text on the subject.
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Because audio books are not just about the text, they are about who is reading the text, in most cases skilled performers who can bring the text alive.
Once digitised, these unique items will be available for full text search, download and reading through Google Books, as well as being searchable through the Library's website and stored in perpetuity within the Library's digital archive.
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