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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Heck, at some point you may even be able to include an annotated digital version of the texts you cite as appendixes to your thesis....
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I'm going to assume I'll be done before anything remotely like this takes shape!
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While I concur that "it's not there yet," IMO it's a matter of time before the economics of printing and buying paper versions stops working for colleges and universities.
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Perhaps. To get to a complete or near-complete switchover, however, would require a format standardization. We're a long way from sorting that out. The "short term" may last quite a while.
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Actually, the examiner would have to acquire the title somehow, but not necessarily the device. Kindle software is available for multiple devices, including iOS, Android OS, Windows and Mac.
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D'ohh! Yeah...I downloaded Kindle for PC a few months before I got the K3. But since then I've so avoided reading on computer screens that I pretty much have forgotten that it can be done!
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Although I expect paper to persist, I'm not sure how things will play out for academia. The print runs are shorter, and it's possible (though I'm not sure) that paper costs are higher than with general interest books.
And while there are no sure things when it comes to disruptive technologies: I do believe that sooner rather than later, indexing pages based on paper is probably going feel like referencing side and track numbers on an LP or 8-track. 
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I think in general that academia has already embraced digital research in a big way. I've benefited heavily from Internet journal databases. But I still think that this "short term" will be a drawn-out process and I don't think paper will ever be completely replaced. There are ways in which it is too useful of an interface! Even if page numbers in digital editions is an intermediate measure, nevertheless it is a welcome one that will help move this transition along.