I'm thinking of buying a digital book but I want to know if I can read it in my laptop, desktop, or i-pad. Or do I need to buy a computer, the E-Book?
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It depends on the format of the e-book. Most can be read on just about any computer or iPad with Adobe Acrobat or a specific viewer software.
Here is a good summary of the formats and what readers and/or software they work with:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ebook-formats-explained/
If you have a computer or iPad, you might consider checking it out from the library rather than buying... if the library has it available, of course.
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I just saw this article - which gleaned information from several sources - about Disappearing E-books: https://gizadeathstar.com/2019/07/disappearing-ebooks/
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Thank you everyone for your feedback.
That said, the backstory is that I ended up buying an online a textbook on economics, along with the password for a substantial amount of additional multimedia material, which supports the content covered in the text.
I ended up buying the textbook because McGraw-Hill does not offer an e-book package that includes the multi-media supplements. It ended up costing me almost $200, including taxes. The author has a well established reputation as a competent economist and this package will help me study the subject on my own. I will eventually take an econ course at SRJC to bolster my knowledge.
Thanks again for the input!