This thread has been dormant for a while, but as I review it, it seems that something has gone missing.

Tools like the Entourage eDGe are nice enough as a standalone book-reading and note-taking device, but it's time to think beyond that. The eDGe needs to be paired with a good Learning Management System (LMS) like Moodle or Canvas.

The beauty and genius of the eDGe are that one can be reading on one side (in beautiful, easy-on-the-eye typefaces) while participating in the www on the other. Coupled with Moodle, for example, the user could be reading a text on the e-Ink side while taking a quiz, writing notes in the journal, or dialoguing in a forum on Moodle. Hypertext links which the teacher prepares on Moodle could be dragged to, linked/highlighted on the eDGe's reader side. The Moodle glossary could be linked to key terms in the ebook with story-specific instances, page references, and examples.

There is NO WAY an iPad or Kindle could even come close to that. Absolutely no way. It will take some time for us to get used to thinking in a different paradigm, rather than the standard note-taking, book-reading.

The eDGe when paired with a good LMS is about interacting, connecting, and multitasking - things you just can't quite do with a notepad, pencil, book -- or even an iPad or kindle.

We need to stop thinking in a Web 1.0 environment and start living in a Web 2.0 world.

i wish we could hear an interview with the designers and programmers of the eDGe. Never happen, but they probably had clear ideas of how they envisioned the eDGe being used -- and I suspect that they didn't merely design it to be a book-reading note-taker. You guys can probably go light years beyond me in this. It would be great to have someone thinking along these lines and demonstrate the use of eDGe and Moodle in the classroom. Wow. It would be incredible.