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Originally Posted by Ankh
IMHO, Kindle DX is still a very poor substitute for laptop.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
And a laptop is a very poor substitute for an eBook Reader.
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For college textbooks, a laptop may actually be a more effective reader, in addition to being useful for other tasks. Depending on the subject, textbooks often rely extensively on both color and page layout, embedding a great deal of information outside the main stream of text, hence the reliance on PDF. A laptop can have several full-color PDFs or instances of a single PDF open at one time along with other applications, allowing the student to easily 'flip' to different areas of the text or different texts in lecture, as well as taking full advantage of any graphs or graphics on first reading.
From what I understand, eBook Readers are optimized for single-stream text. Period.