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Originally Posted by jbcohen
I can quite clearly recall my undergraduate days of luging around four one hundred pound textbooks ten to fifteen miles to classes. I think it would have been great if electronic readers were around back then. Just think one reader holds all of the text, no breaking my back with the four hundred pounds of text books, no lugging those heavy things in snow storms instead one reader that can fit into my pocket.
I can recall the campus book store selling out of the text that I need, happened all of the time. With the electronic reader thats not possible.
Grad school wasn't much better, imagine running out the door of the townhouse late to class with four hundred pounds of text in tow, not fun.
Are there any students on these forums whose electronic readers have saved them from the agony that I went through as a student? Have electronic reader helped you a lot?
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A group of Carnegie Mellon students are creating an app to make textbooks available at low cost to students.
Check it out:
http://www.indiegogo.com/ALIPT
I'm interested in contributing and pledge to do so after 25 people contribute to the cause.