From Campus Technology:
CourseSmart has released a new app that allows users access to e-textbooks from mobile devices including the Kindle Fire, iPad, and Android devices.
The app, which requires no downloading, provides students and staff with a catalog of more than 20,000 e-textbooks created by CourseSmart, as well as other digital education materials. Current users of CourseSmart will sign into their e-textbook accounts and be asked to sign into the Web app when they start reading their e-textbooks.
Features of CourseSmart include:
- A bookshelf, for users to easily find the e-textbooks they’re looking for;
- Search tools, which allow users to find material by topic using a table of contents, turning pages, or doing a text search;
- The ability to zoom in on words and graphics, and look at and add to notes. This feature lets the user rotate his or her device into landscape mode and scroll the page from top to bottom, pinch and zoom, and zoom and pan; and
- The ability to take, view, and delete notes.
Thanks to Michael von Glahn for the link.
