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jbcohen · 06-15-2011, 11:26 AM

Interesting steven are you seeing analysis of the situation? I am yet to see an analysis of the electronic book and/or instances where one is better then the other.

Sweet Pea is correct about hte pages, however is that enough to warrant the change over in technology?

I wish these things were around back when I was an undergrad, I can quite clearly remember walking from the dorm to class with a two ton backpack or going to the book store to pick up a volume I need for a class and finding that the book store is out of that one. I would have loved carrying call my text on one device that weighs mear grams rather than tons and the electronic book store not having the text I need, that doesn't compute. As a grad student I would be running to class with several 200 pound text books and simply not able to make it to class because of the weight. Now I would tuck a one gram reader in a pocket a dash off, sounds great compared to what I did.

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jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	Interesting steven are you seeing analysis of the situation? I am yet to see an analysis of the electronic book and/or instances where one is better then the other. Sweet Pea is correct about hte pages, however is that enough to warrant the change over in technology? I wish these things were around back when I was an undergrad, I can quite clearly remember walking from the dorm to class with a two ton backpack or going to the book store to pick up a volume I need for a class and finding that the book store is out of that one. I would have loved carrying call my text on one device that weighs mear grams rather than tons and the electronic book store not having the text I need, that doesn't compute. As a grad student I would be running to class with several 200 pound text books and simply not able to make it to class because of the weight. Now I would tuck a one gram reader in a pocket a dash off, sounds great compared to what I did. Last edited by jbcohen; 06-15-2011 at 11:30 AM.