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I teach middle school social studies and I have been using ebooks in my classroom for a couple of years now. I've been assigning Animal Farm, Frederick Douglass' Narrative, and Thoreau's Civil Disobedience for reader response and research papers. I do my best to make the text available in as many formats as possible: PDF, html, MP3 (from Librivox.com). The students can then access the material in a way most comfortable to them: on the computer, via print-out, checking out a physical book from the library, listening on a digital audio player, reading it on a cell-phone/ipod touch. Last year one of my students earnestly questioned why she had to carry so many heavy books when it would be possible to put the required materials on a single device. I have a disused Fictionwise EB1150 that I will attempt to make available for student use. We really need rugged devices, though.
Luqman
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