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I was thinking about this today ... really wishing that all of my law school textbooks had been available in PDF format or ebook format. Think about it ... three or four classes each quarter. Each class usually had a very (very) thick casebook and an equally thick hornbook. (A hornbook is what you would think of as more of a textbook in the true sense of the word.)
You had to (most of the time) bring both books to each class. No lockers at school, so ... you lugged at least four gigantic books with you around campus every day (one set of classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday ... another set on Tuesday and Thursday).
All books were text only. No pictures at all ... so really the perfect type of material to have in an ebook format. The only reason I singled out PDF is that color highlighting was a HUGE plus in preparing for class. Just having the ability to annotate didn't help half so much.
But ... oh, to have had a lightweight tablet PC back then, with PDF capability and all of my textbooks in that format. Oh, that would have been heaven on earth!!
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