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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Ebook readers aren't great for academic uses. They're okay for reading novels or linear nonfiction, but there's limited ability for bouncing around between sections of textbooks, and the annotation abilities of most ebook readers fall a bit short of what many students need.
Ebook readers are terrific for "read these four books for this class;" much less useful for "compare chapter 4 of book X to chapters 9 and 10 of book Y." (Especially since many commercial ebooks don't have tables of contents/bookmarked chapters.) We're a ways off yet, from ebook readers taking the place of heavy physical books.
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Yeah. I read a couple of history books for class - a hunk of Livy's History of Rome for a book review...a few other normal history related books.
But straight, 100-level style textbooks? I can't see that happening. You need to flip back and forth.
As it is, it was hard to follow in class when the teacher was flipping between pages. I was pretty much the only one in my class during the summer that had any of the books on the e-reader. Part of the problem is also the not-quite-the-same-page as the physical book - makes it hard to find the right place in class if you're skipping around.
I think something like the Nook color is a little better for this kind of use. You need something that can move fast and flip between pages. I think I could keep up with it better than my old Nook.