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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
...I can't imagine students in college or graduate schools will be lugging books around...
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I'm not so sure about that.
A friend of mine, for his MBA, briefly entirely switched to eBooks.
All his textbooks had been available as PDFs and he certainly had been influenced by me permanently whispering in his ear about the future of reading.
But after a brief testing period he went back to paper again - entirely.
His simple explanation, which kind of makes sense to me:
"On a paper book, you can add notes and colored markers. You can do so on an eBook as well, but you won't find them that easy. On paper books, you simply can put index sliders (don't know the exact English phrase. Basically, you just glue a colored mark of the size of a stamp to the edge of the page and find it easy enough when flipping through the book). But how do you find your marks in an eBook?
I haven't tried for myself. I've used eBooks for contracts, SLAs, price sheets and such without problems. But I can understand the problems my friend has faced.
If I think back to my own textbooks when studying: Tons and tons of colored marks, finding formulas and such within a few seconds. Search would be of no use, since I don't know the formula...