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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Daithi - So it's acceptable for there to be a course which requires the Kindle, and which thus requires frequent aid from a sighted person to the blind person to handle the reading which, in the normal course of events, they could handle themselves on a PC?
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Depends. Lots of blind students need full time assistance in the sense of someone to read to them (or provide tapes of the books).
Speaking as a professor (though I've not had a blind student yet--but have had older colleagues who have) I don't see where it's really any different than a professor using a book that's not available in braille or an audio version. Either way someone in the dissability services has to help that student by paying someone to read the book into a tape recorder for the blind student etc.
That said, I'd think requiring a kindle for a course would be stupid, given the crappy highlighting and annotation options, being much harder to flip through when studying etc. so I do agree e-books should be optional alternatives to paper books for schooling. At least until the technology improves.