 Hello, hello everybody, happy 2020, happy new year. Wow, I cannot believe that it's January the second. I actually had to look at my calendar because since I've had the past week off or so, the days are just kind of bunching in together and I never know what day it is. But yesterday was January the first. I don't do anything for new years really. We go out for a nice dinner and then we just kind of stay at home with our four dogs, tiny dogs, both four dogs. So it's not like I felt sick or anything the next day, like when I was a student and would party, which you should, but I'm just not interested in that anymore. So the days are just kind of bunching together but happy new year you guys, happy 2020. Guess what I did December 31st, actually, what I decided to do was to download the Darby and Walsh dental hygiene textbook. So since I tutor, as you know, I do need to have the updated textbooks make sense. But a little tip for you, every time they update the textbooks, you don't need the newest one. I mean, that's just my opinion. You can have the newest one if you want, but it's literally a big price difference. So you don't need the newest one. Even if you're starting your dental hygiene program soon and they don't just automatically give you a textbook, you don't need the newest one. You can save so much money by buying the one down from that and cause not much changes per textbook. I mean, if you're looking at a textbook from 1999 and then one from say 2019, there's going to be a big difference but things don't really change per edition that soon. So I'm going to show you guys the textbook that I bought. It's not the newest edition. I might have bought the newest edition if you could get it on your Kindle, but you can't yet. And I saved a fortune by getting the one down from that because I know there's not much changes. So I'm going to share my screen, show you guys what I'm talking about here. Okay, sorry guys, just checking my share screen. There you are. So can everybody see my screen? You should see my sort of Amazon. So Amazon is the best thing ever. You can get things like shipped right to your house within a matter of days, but I decided to get the Kindle edition. So everything is on my iPad. The entire text is on my iPad and you want to know what the best thing is that you can copy and paste. So no more highlighting, no more writing down notes, just like read, read, copy, paste into another document if there's certain notes that you want to kind of look at again, done. But okay guys, so check this out. So the newest edition is March 2019, which is fairly new, right? But it is $144, okay, fine, makes sense. I was thinking about getting the Kindle edition because honestly, getting your Kindle edition is better. You might think you need a textbook to kind of read, okay, if you're that person to actually like touch a book then that's fine, but I don't need that. I'm okay to save money and I love being able to copy and paste because as a tutor, when I do my PowerPoints, oh my God, it would have saved me literally years if I could just have copied and paste like the first time I was developing all of my courses. Instead, I typed things out because in my courses, I don't type out the whole textbook, but I type out, you know, certain parts that you as students have to know. So this would have saved me so much time. But the Kindle edition, it's not currently available. So I was kind of like, oh man, but I'm glad that happened because then when I looked through again, so and please be careful because sometimes even if the next book comes up, it's not the most recent, 2014, you guys. And then the next one, 2016. So I mean, you can get whichever one you want, but why not save some money? You know, I'm not going to go down here and you know, save a ton of money to get the one from 2003, because that's too old. But if you go up here, so this is the one that I had purchased, okay. The uncomprehensive review of dental hygiene, okay. So I clicked on that. And you see how to get the paperback is 8739 to get the Kindle edition, 8302. So not much of a difference. But again, I picked the Kindle edition because I can copy and paste and literally read it anytime. No more lugging a heavy textbook to class on the bus to work. When I was a student, I used to study at work because the evenings weren't that busy. I used to work at Subway. It would have been so much better and less obvious to not have to bring a heavy textbook and just bring my iPad to use a Kindle. So that's what I did. So this is the one that I had purchased. I will leave the link for you guys on the bottom if you want it. If you have any questions about the Kindle edition, the textbook edition, let me know. But as I said, I recommend the Kindle just because it's easier or less to have to carry. What else did I wanna say? Oh yes, so as a student, actually guys here, I'll stop sharing my screen so you can see me better. Okay, so as a student, people ask me all the time, do I need a textbook? So if you are going to school and you're looking to save some money, you don't, well no, I would say you do need a textbook, but you don't need the most recent edition. So if your program isn't making you get the most recent edition, then get like the next one. Don't get the one from like 2003. Well, you actually could, but it kinda depends on how your teachers run the course. Hopefully they're not like page specific, like do homework using pages 100 to like 180, whatever. Hopefully they don't have that because then you wouldn't be able to really do your homework properly. But from my experience and from what students have told me in school, you won't need those exact pages. Like just as long as let's say you have a pharmacology class the next day and they want you to refer to your textbook, then you can just look for your pharmacology like chapter and go that way. But if you're a student who is preparing for the board exam and you're taking my board exam prep academy, you don't need your textbook because I have taken several textbooks and put them into PowerPoints. Put them into PDFs in some cases. So PowerPoints, PDF. But I don't just type the textbook. I actually read everything. Pick out the important points and put them in there for you. So it's kind of like if you were at home highlighting the important notes and then putting them into PowerPoint format. That's what I do for you. So I do the hard work for you. So if you're prepping for the board exam, no, you don't need to buy another textbook because I have all of the course work, all of the info for you. If you're not signing up for my tutoring course, then yes, you should buy a textbook because otherwise what are you going to study from? Your notes won't be enough. I can promise you that because they will pick a part of things that you don't have in your notes and you don't want to risk failing because you don't want to buy a textbook. If you're in Ontario and you are a dental hygienist studying for the quality assurance exam, so not the board exam, but if you have been audited. So if you don't live in Ontario, you're lucky because we are pretty much audited at least once every five to six years now, if not more, where we either have to submit a portfolio of all of our continuing education, talking about what we learned, what we want to learn, or take what's called a quality assurance exam, where we basically take a mini board exam to prove our knowledge. So if you're in that phone taking the quality assurance exam, you do not need the textbook, but you should sign up for my quality assurance study guide course because I have everything that you have to know for that exam in that course. So you could buy the textbook if you want, but that would be very overwhelming. You wouldn't know what to study and what not to study. So it's kind of better to sign up for a course. Does that help to answer everybody's questions? Actually, I'm gonna pause this for one moment so I can show you guys what it looks like on the Kindle. So let me just pause the recording one moment. Okay guys, so I'm gonna hold it up to the screen here. So check this out. Pretty nice, eh? And the nice thing is with your Kindle or iPad, I have an iPad but I have the Kindle app on my iPad. You can change if you want it to be a white screen, a black screen for night mode, so it's pretty cool. But if you go up, let's say to the table of contents, see that, oh, look, we can look at the nice cover image. I was actually looking for that, so there you go. So there's the cover image there. Back to table of contents here. So you can pick, let's see, let me hold this with one hand. You can pick what kind of chapter, probably going the wrong way, you want to look at, okay? So let's just say we wanna look at microbiology chapter nine. Can everybody see that? Let's just click microbiology. And right there, see? Pretty darn cool, whoops, I'm going the wrong way again. Pretty darn cool, right? So you could have a textbook or you can have your Kindle and just copy and paste, just have to click, highlight. Oh, it looks like I can change the color too, which is pretty cool. So look at that, you guys. And then see how kind of looks like I can change the color. Let me just test that, I'm gonna click pink. Oh, look, you can highlight. Learn something new every day. But look at that, you guys. And let's say I wanna highlight something else. I'll just pick that yellow color. There you go, perfect. And then let's just say I want to copy that. You can click the like copy function right there. Copy, it is copied. And then I can paste that anywhere. Looks like I can send it. Sorry guys, just kind of checking. What else I can do with it? I can search too, which is pretty cool. I just kind of clicked the search feature, interesting. So you guys, I totally recommend the Kindle if that's what you want. But oh my God, I wish I had this when I was in school and this would have saved me. A, from lugging textbooks everywhere, literally. And just less textbooks and stuff to have to carry. So I will leave the link for you guys on the bottom. Check it out and let me know what you guys think. Like I'm kind of curious for those of you. Let me know if you prefer to study from like a textbook textbook or if you're kind of curious about the Kindle. If you do have the Kindle edition, let me know. I would like to know your thoughts. And if you know of any tips like for the Kindle, like I just learned that I can actually highlight. I didn't know that. Another thing actually, guys, a side note that I have on my Kindle if you're in Ontario, the CDHO resources right here are the registrants handbook. So I have that so that I can just sort of look at things often because if you guys don't know, I do have my own dental hygiene practice. So I look at this quite often to see like advertising guidelines, what I need for my sterilization area. Cause I'm a mobile practice where I go to people's homes and I have a home office here as well. So that is awesome. Okay, thank you guys so much for listening. Let me know if you have any questions. If you haven't yet, please make sure to click like cause it's just kind of cool to see how many likes I get and make sure to subscribe because we have over 10,000 YouTube subscribers which is just pretty cool for me cause I just started my YouTube channel about six years ago and I just kind of started it. You should actually see the first couple of videos I have done. I think they're horrible, but they have a lot of likes. Just have a look. So it's just kind of cool to see how things evolve. So thank you guys so much for watching and I'll talk to you in the next one. If you're curious too, I'll leave the link for you guys for the board exam prep academy on the bottom. If you are either a dental hygiene student or a dental assisting student looking to take the board exam and you need help. Plus, if you are a dental hygienist in Ontario and you're taking the quality assurance exam, I can leave the link for you on the bottom for that too since I did talk about it in this video. Thank you guys for watching. Have a good, what's the day today? Thursday, have a good Thursday and I'll see you guys very, very soon. Thank you so much for watching.