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Originally Posted by brecklundin
Mike....sorry but that is beyond HORRIBLE and no way anyone can learn from a page which will have been broken into several sub-pages destroying the continuity of the equations. Rarely will you ever see a math text where the examples/solutions span other than the facing pages...which also represents a reason why textbooks are going to take a LOOOONG time to move to ereaders...many are engineered/designed to use two facing pages not flipping back and forth. But if given the ability to see at least one full page, I would say maybe some students would adapt OK but even if the formatting of the PDF is retained on a 6" panel device the page had to be split into multiple screens which adds a significant layer and distraction to the student. (snip)
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Actually, my first thought after reading this was that Ahi should be jumping in here....
I think that a small screen *could* work, but only if the texts were authored with the screen in mind. So they could adjust the writing and examples to fit on the screen, with page breaks designed to work with that page size.
So far, it seems that no publisher has even considered that idea. It would take a LOT of re-writing and/or editing to make a technical text work. Maybe Onyx could work with a publisher to organize such editing, but I doubt it would be cheap.
And I agree that the MathCad app would be very interesting. (of course I'm not likely to go back to school again now, but still....)