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A. If I were in school I'd want paper books that I could highlight and flip back and forth and write notes in the maregins.
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I never wrote or highlighted books. Couldn't resell them with marks.
My school district did their own small study using students who had had ereaders or tablets for over a year and really found no significant differences between those using paper vs. ereader for general reading. They found a lot of difference in only certain types of books, such as science - where you needed to constantly refer back to diagrams or tables. Also issues with annotated literature, but because I've never seen annotated ebooks, I didn't really understand the issue. Flipping back and forth between the text and annotation made it more difficult apparently on an ereader. So, with a history book, the teacher might provide a printed timeline to students, but have them continue to use the ereader for the text. Interestingly, they found that students with ereaders or phones with reading capability were more likely to complete reading assignments in a timely manner (or at all) than those without them. The kids report that it's easier to tote it with them than a book and it is instantly in the spot that you left.
So, as we suspected, most, but not all, of the issues are simply that those in the test aren't familiar with ereading and thus the study is useless.