Thread: Will the Kindle Change Education?
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Old 12-16-2009, 04:38 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by edembowski View Post
No. E-readers are great for novels, but rather poor for textbooks and other reference materials. PDF on a netbook or similar has a much better chance in the educational market place. My son has one of those Asus touch screen netbooks, and he uses that extensively for PDF's and it's much better than an e-reader for that.

- Ed
The Kindle DX has a larger screen and PDF support through Adobe's Mobile SDK precisely to handle that issue.
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