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Originally Posted by juj1n
As for the DX in educational settings, it already got it's first failing grade. The kindle DX was said to be a "poor excuse of an educational tool" by a student in a test pilot using the kindle in replacement of textbooks. IMHO it will never replace textbooks because you can't have multiple books open at the same time and jump between pages rapidly. It also isn't as easy to annotate or highlight... I love ereaders but I don't think they will ever replace textbooks anytime soon.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/k...-in-princeton/ |
I agree. I don't see ebooks replacing textbooks anytime soon. Textbooks aren't novels. You don't read them once, front to back and them put them away for a long time only to read it again, front-to-back. I have a whole bunch of my textbooks in PDF format on my PC at home. Despite this, when I have to quickly look things up, or if I am working on a problem (even if I am on my computer) I end up going to my regular textbook instead of the PDF on my PC. This is with a PC with a 24 inch widescreen monitor and all the processing power I will ever need to browse through multiple PDFs. I highly doubt that any E-book reader will replace a textbook. It is much easier to use a physical textbook, flip through pages, jump back to a section you read 10 minutes back, etc... and more so if you are referring to multiple books at the same time.
E-textbooks will be useful if you are in class and can't lug around all your textbooks. But if you are home and working on things, you will always tend to go for a regular textbook rather than a digital one.