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E-Book Readers Bomb on College Campuses

Haven’t read this article but I really enjoyed studying with two copys of every book this spring .. using a PDF on the iPad and a PDF on the laptop .. was able to switch back and forth without having to move my place.  now the PDF’s were obtained from the internet and I had the real paper books in a pile so I think I’m clear as far as copyright goes but the people who made the PDF’s are not?  This is the same issue as buying something on vinyl and torrenting the MP3’s or is it not.  I think its a question of getting used to. It seems hard to write in an ereader and then flip through and look at your notes .. I think this is more of a the students need to learn to use the tools situation. 

infoneer-pulse:

Hopes were high last fall when the Amazon (AMZN) Kindle DX was distributed to a group of students at seven universities around the country in a classroom pilot program for the electronic reader. With students able to download class materials and textbooks easily onto the slender 10.2-ounce device, many thought the era of carrying heavy textbooks would soon be over. Just a few months later, their hopes were dashed, as students reported that the Kindle was a poor replacement for a textbook, hard to use in the classroom, and difficult to navigate.

“It’s an amazing device for recreational reading, but it’s not quite ready for prime time in higher education,” says Daniel Turner, associate dean of the masters and executive education programs at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business (Foster Full-Time MBA Profile), one of the schools that participated in the pilot.

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