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Originally Posted by sirbruce
You're suggest the laptop can substitute as an ereader. But it can't, because it doesn't have the battery life, and long-term reading on one can cause eyestrain.
So you're carrying a laptop around whether you have physical books or an ebook reader.
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Many laptops now have more than adequate battery life for a day of classes, and campuses typically have numerous places to plug in. Eyestrain depends on the particular display and how you use it, but it's less of an issue for a college-age person than for your typical Kindle owner in any case.
Textbooks are really a <ahem> textbook case of why dedicated eBook readers are a technological dead end or, at best, a niche market. At the point when a majority of readers are reading electronically, it will almost certainly be from the same device they use for mobile internet: hybrid laptop/smartphone devices leaning more in one direction or the other depending on the user, and maybe integrating eInk or some resultant technology, but not solely or primarily an "ebook reader."