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Originally Posted by ahi
Are there any real world layout-intensive textbooks that have been released in a reflow format without being drastically stripped from the useful complexities of the original paper edition?
I'd be curious to see one, since so many people here seem to think that it is possible to do such a thing with professional quality.
- Ahi
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The kaplan Study guides I purchased - seem to work just fine and they are an analog for the paper version, with the exception of the variable page count due to font size.
Some books will be more complex, but where you might have multi column pages with artfully placed graphics with text flowing around them etc in the paper version, you would have to go with a more linear model where the pertinent text is displayed with the graphics inline either before or after the text. I do not feel it would diminish my ability to learn if the material was more linear in fashion, rather than perhaps a more ad-hoc arrangment is as the case with some textbooks.
I think a large factor is openess to change - people used to paper books will have to alter thier workflow and approach to studying when using an ebook. it does not mean its inferior, nay, I will even put forth that I believe it to be superior, but I have embraced using an ereader in my lifestyle.
The change will not happen overnight, but I have to think in the age of such environmental awareness that our children, being adept with technology will be willing to embrace the needed changes
The following statistic is was taken from the University Of Colorado website regarding recycling, and even though I trust their sources I still am staggered and not sure I can fully accept the number
It takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday Edition of the New York Times.
Is that even possible?
It is not a question of can we do it; it would almost seem to be a moral imparative to reduce the amount of paper we consume. Starting with the people that will one day be running the world, namely the people in our school and universities