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>They all said they use paper textbooks for school.
To be sure, I went to university when paperbacks were 25 cents, but I would never use an e-book for close study. I am taking an EdX MOOC right now, and I bought the textbook (from Amazon, Prime delivery, tee hee) in addition to downloading the e-book from the EdX website. (The instructor gave up his royalties in order to be able to distribute the text without charge that way. 9000 people in 170 countries -- I didn't know that there were 170 countries! -- in three previous terms, so I assume that's a considerable number of books even if half drop out before the second "hour.")
My daughter, however, does use Kindle for this purpose. Paperbacks were three or four dollars by the time she went to university. I'm still skeptical. I don't really remember it unless I underline it and put exclamation marks and stars in the margin....
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