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Originally Posted by jehane
There's not enough detail in the proposal.......................................... ......................Since we are talking about impoverished African communities, are ebooks really the way to go? These will be older and probably well-used models (since the people likely to trade up will be regular readers) so battery life will be shorter (consider the availability and reliability of electricity supply), and software/hardware failures more likely. What do you see as the advantages of ebooks over pbooks in this situation?
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All excellent points, and enough, to my mind, to make this a non-practical starter that could help/make a real difference.
(One further glitch springs to mind ......... would there be the infrastructure to provide ebooks in the countries concerned ?)
I feel pbooks are still the answer over technology heavy, and support-reliant alternatives.