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Verres · 03-02-2011, 01:08 PM

I use my kindle for some university texts, however in my opinion it still has a looong way to go till it becomes a real alternative (for studying). The Kindle DX doesn't even offer the same (still limited) PDF capabilities of the K3.

There already took place quite a few tests with the Kindle DX in universities and often students weren't happy at all because to really study a text deeply you usually need to interact with it and that is just not really possible with the Kindle DX. If you just want to read text linear from beginning to end you are fine but when you try to quickly jump from chapter 3 to chapter 42 it quickly gets messy while in class.

So in my opinion the students of Alberta would do well to stick with their textbooks a little bit longer.

03-02-2011, 01:08 PM	#2
Verres Zealot Posts: 137 Karma: 5496 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Trier Device: none	I use my kindle for some university texts, however in my opinion it still has a looong way to go till it becomes a real alternative (for studying). The Kindle DX doesn't even offer the same (still limited) PDF capabilities of the K3. There already took place quite a few tests with the Kindle DX in universities and often students weren't happy at all because to really study a text deeply you usually need to interact with it and that is just not really possible with the Kindle DX. If you just want to read text linear from beginning to end you are fine but when you try to quickly jump from chapter 3 to chapter 42 it quickly gets messy while in class. So in my opinion the students of Alberta would do well to stick with their textbooks a little bit longer.