New Kindle E-Reader Enters Textbook Market
Reader Comments
Kindle for public K-12
As a former board of education trustee I see this as the future for all school books. We have issues with children carrying book bags which are too heavy. This will enable all school books to be updated yearly and reduce costs. There needs to be a push for health reasons to transfer K-12 educational books to this new media. 1 Kindle can take the place of all school books. These Kindles can be made stronger like Panasonic Toughbooks which are impervious to most types of liquid spills and being dropped.
Colleges can save their students money by allowing them to download the books rather than having to purchase or rent the college books.
I also see the end of having a student say I left my books at school. The downloads can be done to the home PC as well as to the Kindle. Kindles are the future for books. If we really want to push for this the Dept of Education should be fighting to get their share of the TARP money to offset the $489.00 cost of the Kindle.
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improvement idea
why cant kindle be sold out with inbuilt school books in the memory, according to the grades? so that students also can avial this facility and reduce their burdens by keeping their bundle of text books at their home..........
regards,
saravanan
chennai
India
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Another point for consideration
I am a student at Troy University's eCampus pursuing a degree in Applied Computer Science. Many of the text books I purchase have an access code for additional online resources and sometimes come with a CD as well.
I would love to take advantage of all the pros of the Kindle, but there should be a method to get these additional resources too.
Another improvement idea
If it is to be successful in the colleges -- It would be helpful to have a stylus to highlight, underline,circle text.
Textbooks
I read the physician's problem regarding jumping around the kindle textbook (skipping to page 289, looking-up answers in the back, etc). Going back and forth page by page would be tedious. Could the kindle skip through chapters which would then be broken down by subtitles for quick access?
Textbooks on large Kindle
I have a Kindle 1 and really enjoy it.
I am a physician and have tired textbooks on it - BIG problem is easily jumping back and forth-(e.g. a question and answer board review book. Take a few questions, but how does one look up the answer in the back?
Page by page it's tough.
Using the dinky index at the bottom gets one closer, but still not good enough.
Need a way to get to page 289 quickly, then bookmark to get there again ....
