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Didn't Amazon just do a test run to see if they could expand the market of their ereaders beyond the casual reader? I seem to recall something about them giving university students a DX model and running an experiment to see if students could study using only their ereader. That experiment failed. Some students struggled with trying to study on the Kindle DX, while others (not willing to sacrifice their GPA for an experiment) gave up and snuck in real text books to study.
IMO, some things are easier to read with paper books. If I'm studying and trying to absorb information, I want a paper book. I want to be able to flip and turn back and forth quickly. I need to spread text books and notes all around me (the dining room table is great for this!) to absorb information. I don't know why that is, I only know that it is. For casual reading I reach for my Kobo every time (which I love!) Obviously I'm not the only one who feels this way or Amazon would be trumpeting the success of their Kindles-for-university-students experiment. And I daresay other ereaders would have adopted some of those strategies to capture the academic market.
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