07-27-2009, 10:38 AM | #1 |
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ASU Launches Kindle Text Book Use
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...books0724.html
Apparently the text book experiments are going ahead for 2009. The most telling statement in this story (for me) was: "While Kindle is the market leader, no single electronic device for viewing books, known as a "reader," has emerged as the industry standard. E-books used to be mainly available by downloading them onto a computer or viewing them over the Web. Now, several smaller devices are available, including the Kindle and the Sony Reader. More are in development, including one by Hewlett-Packard." Anyone know about a H-P reader? Or will it be another netbook reader? |
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To be honest, I don't think the DX or any reader is yet good enough for text books.
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07-27-2009, 12:03 PM | #7 |
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The system software has to be tailored for text books. And no device has the software to replace paper text books yet.
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