This week's challenge is proving to be very frustrating to me. I am not going to resume trying to finish the Discovery Exercise because my internet has locked up too many times, and I have needed to totally close the browser windows and start all over. I hope everyone else is having better luck. I will report on what I discovered before I gave up.
1) I chose to research "tax advice for rental properties" and various other terms along those lines, since I am trying to complete my taxes and this is the first year I have needed to deal with a rental property. (We couldn't sell our house in AZ before we moved to SD, so we have rented it out since July.) I chose to look at a couple of Idiot's Guides. One was for completing taxes using Turbo Tax (which is what I do); the other was an Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance. I would open the Table of Contents in order to skip to the subjects I was interested in, but my computer would quit responding when I tried to scroll down the page. So, I was only able to look at the first few lines on a page. Every single time I tried, things would work fine until I tried to scroll down the page -- then my computer would quit responding. I thought maybe there was a problem with the Idiot Guides, so I decided to move on to #2.
2) I looked up various terms such as "U. S. Constitution" and "history of the U. S. Constitution." I found a couple of books that looked promising: Our Elusive Constitution and Reader's Companion to American History. Unfortunately, I couldn't dig within the books, because once again the computer would quit responding when I tried to scroll down. Before I tried scrolling down on my last effort, I did use the tool that allows you to search within the book. I saw a lot of things that looked promising, but could not investigate them further without being able to scroll down the page.
3) At this point, I am too frustrated to waste any more time trying to get this to work, so I chose to not even attempt task 3.
It seems like it would be great to have access to ebooks such as those Idiot Guides, Blue Books, etc... I just would be afraid to recommend this particular site to a patron after all of the trouble I have had with it. Hopefully, my co-workers will not experience the same problems on their computers.
So sorry for your troubles, Clueless. We believe the problem is on your end, as we have not had similar reports and are not getting those results when we go into ebooks on ebscohost. And you did point me toward a good personal finance title that I can make good use of. Thanks for your comments, and I hope your computer issues improve!
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