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Unless they can make it cheaper than $400, I think the way to go for students is textbooks stored on a laptop. The textbook could be accessible via a web browser, and access could be controlled such that the student gets only the books he/she needs, and access is revoked after the course is over. Plus, the student could do other work on the device besides reading.
If they can make it for more like $100, schools may be able to afford to buy them and loan them to students. They need to be VERY durable. Also image support has to be a lot better. I tend to think the screen would need to be bigger, about the size of a standard text-book.
It would be great to AT LEAST have something like this accessible to vision-impaired students (I love the automatic large-print option). I was vision-impaired when I was younger, and let me tell you, those large-print textbooks are very heavy. I had to use a cart to 'carry' my books around. And you could equip it with text-to-speech too!
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