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marlof
08-28-2003, 11:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.handheldsfordoctors.com/learn/ebooks/pocketessentials.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.handheldsfordoctors.com/...tessentials.htm</a><br /><br /></div>Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli has reviewed Saunders' Pocket Essentials of Clinical Medicine on the <a href="http://www.handheldsfordoctors.com/">Handhelds for Doctors</a> site. For those in the medical field, take a look at this review of an ebook that can be read on your PC and almost any handheld device, including your Pocket PC.<br /><br />A nice point Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli makes, is that this book is very pleasantly priced. Medical texts are often pretty expensive, and that is even more the case with their ebook counterparts. Most medical textbooks usually cost at least $40, with the PDA ebook versions being priced higher at $60 and above. By contrast this publisher has priced both paper and ebook versions at around $30, and you can buy them both for $45. Now if only more publishers would follow this example!
Cortex
08-28-2003, 01:10 PM
the problem is we are getting to many readers just to read a book!

handheld med had a great idea by using a consolidated reader for all of their books -- unfortunately they haven't changed their library much in 5 years! :?

there is another publisher that i cant remember the name of right now, sky something that also has their own reader...

this book looks ok but it comes with an independent reader which is just more wasted space and clutter.

regardless its nice to see more medical references ported over to handhelds -- that's where handhelds really become useful for me.
Dr. Grabow
08-28-2003, 10:00 PM
Skyscape is what you're thinking of, I think. And they do have an integrated "reader" with each of their references, but who knows how much extra space that takes up for each one.

Would be very nice not to have a proprietary reader for so many different references. That's the main reason I don't buy many. I mostly use MobilePDR because it's free and has the info I need for a drug lookup.