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Originally Posted by Calenorn
Thank you @ AngryD.
I'll just add one thing: there is no college student in the universe that longs to lug fifty pounds of paper books, instead of accessing them all via laptop / chromebook / tablet. None. Zero.
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That really depends on the quality and format of digital textbooks I think. If it's a high quality PDF scan or a well formatted ePub that works for the content I'll take that. If it's some horrid thing that requires I be online, logged into a specific website (some of the textbook publishers really do this) to read I'll take the paper books.
ebooks as a concept are far better but in practice they often aren't because publishers are too afraid of piracy or cutting into paper sales to put out quality product.