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Textbooks Textbooks

Textbooks-ipad-722922

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Kno delivers the best reading experience for textbooks and PDFs to the iPad with the world’s largest selection of over 70,000 titles at 30-50% off the list price. Get blown away by an amazing set of features that makes reading, organizing, and managing your textbooks and PDFs easier than ever before. What are you waiting for? Press the install button already, and give this puppy a test drive.... Read More

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Education
Release Date:
Jun 03, 2011
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Great Apps for College Students
Calendar16 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:30:48 UTC +00:00
By Bonnie Eisenman on September 12th, 2011 As a college student, my iPod goes with me everywhere. Here are some apps sure to help any college student with their busy life. From textbook apps to alarm clocks, iPhones and iPads can change the way students live and study. iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads abound on college campuses, and for good reason. iOS devices are great anyway, but for college students, there are myriad ways in which an iOS device can make life easier. When it comes to studying textbooks, taking notes in lecture, or even waking up to start the day—chances are there’s an app for that. There are far too many useful apps to count, but here I’d like to list just a few apps sure to help college students manage their busy lives. Textbooks Paper textbooks may still be king, but e-readers are increasingly creating a presence in college Read More
Erick Schonfeld is the Editor of TechCrunch. He oversees the editorial content of the site, helps to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produces TCTV shows, and writes daily for the blog. He is also the father of three adorable children. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to... → Learn More As students start going back to college, they are downloading Kno’s new Textbooks app for the iPad in droves. It is currently the No. 1 iPad education app, No. 2 grossing iPad app overall, and a top-25 free app (more popular than even the Kindle iPad app). The app is being downloaded once every 8 seconds. The map above depicts downloads over the past 24 hours. The app itself is free, but then Kno sells digital college textbooks as in-app purchases. Know currently offers more than 100,000 textbooks, which can be Read More
Erick Schonfeld is the Editor of TechCrunch. He oversees the editorial content of the site, helps to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produces TCTV shows, and writes daily for the blog. He is also the father of three adorable children. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to... → Learn More As students start going back to college, they are downloading Kno’s new Textbooks app for the iPad in droves. It is currently the No. 1 iPad education app, No. 2 grossing iPad app overall, and a top-25 free app (more popular than even the Kindle iPad app). The app is being downloaded once every 8 seconds. The map above depicts downloads over the past 24 hours. The app itself is free, but then Kno sells digital college textbooks as in-app purchases. Know currently offers more than 100,000 textbooks, which can be Read More
Kno Turns Textbooks 3D (Video)
Calendar16 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:04:01 UTC +00:00
How do you make a digital textbook more than just a glorified PDF on a tablet? Kno, the tablet textbook company started by Chegg co-founder Osman Rashid, is rolling out a variety of features to try to bring textbooks to life, including Facebook integration, automated quizes, an activity stream of notes. But an update to its iPad app today points to how digital textbooks can create entirely new experiences out of static notations. In the vido above, Rashid shows me Kno’s 3D modeling feature. The 3D feature right now works only with models of molecules in chemistry textbooks. It converts the standard chemistry notations indicating how atoms are bonded together in a molecule into a spinning 3D model along the margins. These 3D models can be enlarged and rotated to give students a better visualization of how each one appears. Of all the new features Rashid showed me, this one impressed Read More
Kno Turns Textbooks 3D (Video)
Calendar16 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:04:01 UTC +00:00
How do you make a digital textbook more than just a glorified PDF on a tablet? Kno, the tablet textbook company started by Chegg co-founder Osman Rashid, is rolling out a variety of features to try to bring textbooks to life, including Facebook integration, automated quizes, an activity stream of notes. But an update to its iPad app today points to how digital textbooks can create entirely new experiences out of static notations. In the vido above, Rashid shows me Kno’s 3D modeling feature. The 3D feature right now works only with models of molecules in chemistry textbooks. It converts the standard chemistry notations indicating how atoms are bonded together in a molecule into a spinning 3D model along the margins. These 3D models can be enlarged and rotated to give students a better visualization of how each one appears. Of all the new features Rashid showed me, this one impressed Read More
By Rob LeFebvre on August 12th, 2011 New study features come to the textbook app, which is also now available on Facebook. Kno is giving away $1,000,000 to promote the app and the service. Kno for iPad comes to Facebook, giving away over $1,000,000 in free textbooks for use in its app and on Facebook itself. Two new features, Quiz Me and Journal, have just been added to the iPad app as well. Kno for Facebook is an HTML 5 Facebook app that will let users with a Kno account to read their purchased textbooks right in their Facebook account environment. Never again will the poor college student miss a Farmville request! Kno is giving away their $1,000,000 via a Facebook Spin The Wheel game, where players can win up to $50 in credits to spend at Kno.com. The iPad app gets two new features today: Journal and Quiz Me. The Read More
“We are not trying to redefine the textbook,” Kno CEO Osman Rashid tells me, “we are trying to redefine how you learn.” Today, Kno is taking a big steps towards making digital textbooks more social by making 100,000 college textbooks available both on its Website and on Facebook. The Textbooks for Facebook app and site will present the books via an HTML5 reader. So students who buy a book via Kno’s iPad app, can now read them online or on Facebook. They can post study questions and comments to their news feeds, with an eye towards creating full-fledged study groups down the line. Kno is also adding new study features into its iPad app. In the video above, VP of marketing Ousama Haffar demos QuizMe and Journal. QuizMe creates a test out of any labeled diagram in a digital textbook. It blacks out the labels and lets you test yourself with Read More
Kno makes good move from dedicated table...
Calendar16 Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:49:31 UTC +00:00
...makes good move from dedicated tablet to apparently pretty solid ipad app. RT @jwikert http://bit.ly/koiiNn #toccon... Read More
The Kno Textbook App And Store Hits The iPad
Calendar16 Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:38:43 UTC +00:00
Erick Schonfeld is the Editor of TechCrunch. He oversees the editorial content of the site, helps to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produces TCTV shows, and writes daily for the blog. He is also the father of three adorable children. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to... → Learn More Last night, Kno quietly released its first digital textbook app for the iPad. It includes its own store of “over 70,000 titles at 30% to 50% off list” price. And the app is a full textbook reader. Kno, whose CEO Osman Rashid previously founded textbook-rental service Chegg, originally developed its own oversized tablet for textbooks. But once the iPad and Android tablets hit the market, the company saw the writing on the touchscreen and bailed on its hardware efforts last April. At that time, when I spoke to Rashid, he was Read More

Reviews

Text size a problem
Mr. Luigi 2.0 stars Version: 1.3
This app has potential. Right now it is a bit laggy to make for a good user experience. Most importantly, the app does not (as far as I can tell) offer the functionality of choosing a variety of text sizes except via using Apples two finger zoom gesture. This is totally unacceptable as it then pushes most of the page off the screen forcing you to pan like a mad person looking for content. This app needs to offer the option of larger text sizes and it needs to do this while reformatting the page so that panning is unnecessary. I am a teacher. Some of my students with only modest visual impairment would not be able to comfortably read the books as presented. I may be wrong, but is looks like the original paper textbook is made to fit the iPad screen...which is smaller than most textbooks. This forces the text to be smaller. Also, and maybe I was just unlucky, but the textbook I use in my physics classes was also not available. This, despite being the most popular physics textbook on the market today.
Great for undergrads
Mdoggggggggg7 5.0 stars Version: 1.3
Great all around app. The fact that I can download any free PDF makes it worth a download, and will be very useful next semester
More like iBook?
Jacob31492 3.0 stars Version: 1.3
I think this would be one of the most popular apps for college students to use if it was more like iBooks reading style. Such as the page turning and dictionary function.
Good for a version 1...
Michael McNeeley 3.0 stars Version: 1.3
I am really liking the functionality of this app. The highlighting functionality is a bit buggy (hard to edit a selection) and I'd like to be able to page left/right by tapping the sides of the screen.I haven't yet added books, but I did add a PDF, an action I'd like to be able to do through iTunes. The book search and purchase experience seems quite well-thought out. Finally I'd like to be able to remove the sample book section that they've added since I don't need instructions once I've read them.All in all, I'm liking it and can't wait for the next few updates.
Great potential but too laggy.
Roland Taracks 3.0 stars Version: 1.3
This app has a great potential but is way to laggy and slow on my iPad 2 with no background apps.
A new beginning
Rohit Akhauri 4.0 stars Version: 1.3
This is an indication of beginning of new era in which students will finally be able to lower the weight off their shoulders and would be carrying light weight iPad instead of bulky bunch of books.I love the highlight features of this app. It has built in dictionary that comes really handy. If you want elaborated definition,you can be directed to Safari browser and by double tapping you can come right back in app which is another stellar feature.But I didn't find even one book for my purpose. For couple of searches,it said "make a request" but rest of them ware not even found in it's database which indicates it has very few books at this time so it won't solve the purpose of serious study.Now it depends on the app owner, if they are really serious about making their presence well felt,then the first thing they need to do is increase the library of books.
This could be a hit
Cesar Reyes 3.0 stars Version: 1.3
Being able to carry 4 or 5 textbooks on my iPad would be insanely helpful. The app does crash a couple of times and the book shop is still being developed. Keep working on this app! It has a lot of potential!
Limited selection
Utrecht1011 2.0 stars Version: 1.3
This app seems to have great potential such sticky notes, highlighting, etc. However, very limited selection of books, not clear on how much a book cost as the price list makes no sense ($4.99 for one book, $119 for three books?), can't seem to make text size different. I assume the sticky notes etc, will transfer over when the app upgrades, but not sure about that. The books I looked at did not have any additional features such as video, animations, interactive diagrams: would have been nice.

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