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I don't think that the line between "serious readers" and "game players and video watchers" is as hard and fast as it once was.[/QUOTE]



Thanks Xanthe for your reply. It’s much appreciated and respected.

I can see where Nook and Kindle are becoming many things to many people. However, when they announced that they will be handling school textbooks for students, I question whether they are ready to handle serious studying. My son was considering ordering school textbooks, for his Kindle, for some of his courses at Ohio State University to cut some of his cost in books. Myself, I like to study-Theology. Like you, I am way up there in age (66 yr.) Even at that late age, I enjoy studying as a hobby-I like learning. I think that everybody does in their own way.

Here’s why I think that these features are relevant to the student, and I’ll add a few more features. I currently own two religion programs: Wordsearch and Logos. I have 230 books in one program and 405 books in the other. These programs are designed for research, and reading casually if you wish. Wordsearch offers 12 different highlighting colors, used to separate text important to the individual. Logos has six colors, but these colors apply to font colors, underlining, and highlighting. Logos also include the ability to bold text, bracket, box; snip text, and much more.

These features were not put there because of one person’s wishes, but by demand of many; ministers, serious seminary students and people such as myself. These programs are used by many seminary students worldwide. Many students highlight, underline and bracket text in their hardcover books. In these programs you can do much more and it doesn't damage text.

It makes studying or reviewing your e-text for a test easier if you have the main points highlighted, the secondary information underlined, or highlighted in a different color, and the same for additional information. It is so much easier to flip back through pages on a review and quickly identify the information that you color code than to reread all the pages. A binder notebook works, but why write everything down when you can reduce much of the writing by color coding and underlining text?

Looking at e-readers, are any up to par to consider for serious student textbook study, none; not one. I chose Barnes and Noble as an example because I own two. If they are going into school textbooks then they need to get their devices up to par so the serious student can study from them with the tools needed. They already meet the requirements as an entertainment device, not as a school textbook device for serious study.

I like to review about every six months and it’s so much easier for me to identify, quickly, in color, what’s important without reading the whole page. These e-text tools are important, and I would consider them before buying into school textbooks for e-readers.

Thanks again for your reply, and I do appreciate it. I can see where these devices meet many people desires. I was only showing where they are deficient-text tools for studying.