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I have discovered that I really don’t like electronic books. I really enjoy sitting in bed at night reading a book. If I fall asleep and the book hits the floor - who cares. But if you fall asleep with your laptop (besides being uncomfortable) you may break the screen, wrench the screen off the body, or drop it and kill it.
I don’t know that a Kindle (or its ilk) would be any better because of the large number of broken iPods and iPhones that I see at school. Electronic devices just break easily.

kindle photo from: http://www.amazon.com/
Saturday, January 9, 2010

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joe bustillos
When I was working on my doctorate my dissertation was going to be about the observation that no one does long session reading on their computers. We scan and then move on. I've read on my iPhone and it's doable. I love reading paperbacks but have no nostalgia about it. I'd rather have some device like the Kindle that can mimic the experience but be much more efficient than my library full of dead-trees. Given how expensive textbooks are and, perhaps foolishly thinking that publishers will have to change their prices, moving from dead-tree to e-text will still be a huge cost savings. At $250 a device that's still less than four core subjects x $70 per text (at the last middle school they issue a text book to be taken home but also had to have a class set in the classroom so that students wouldn't have to bring the books back and forth so that added to cost of textbooks significantly). And if some e-reader were to get a huge contract with a school district then that should push the cost of each device down closer to $100 each. This is all assuming that the whole system doesn't just collapse on itself. Ack.
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 01:25 PM

BriGette M Ross
I do understand. It took me a good couple of days to get the hang of reading on my laptop. I read from my Ipod touch but only when I am stuck somewhere for an inordinate amount of time with nothing good to do. I like the texture of books but I love the convenience of Kindle and Ipod maybe one day for nostalgia sake they will make a kindle that feels like book pages.
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 02:22 AM