Re: E-books Fail The Classroom Test

I agree that e-books are linear and that it is frustrating to have to jump around and refer back.  I've never used an e-book for a textbook but I do read fiction with them and I tend to forget names and have to go back and remind myself.  That's fairly easy in a paper book and not easy at all in an e-book.
Bookmarks and notes help with that but it's still a lot more difficult than with paper.
However, e-book technology is still new and my guess is that these problems are very solvable and with proper organization and tools e-books for textbooks can be as good or better than paper.  It'll take time. 

Barry

--- On Mon, 9/6/10, geebs <geebsjewels-gtZV2LDRpD9zo8oLs6T/[email protected]> wrote:

From: geebs <geebsjewels-gtZV2LDRpD9zo8oLs6T/[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ebook-community] E-books Fail The Classroom Test
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, September 6, 2010, 12:19 PM















 
 



  


    
      
      
      I don't know what the original poster or the article was inferring,  

but I would find it very frustrating reading a text book on an ereader.



When I studied those many years ago, I would skim through the text  

book and get a feel for it and managed to retain a surprising amount  

of data that first skim through. I haven't used a Kindle DX, but I do  

have an iPad and while it's good for a lot of things, I don't think it  

would be good for reference books since reading on it is still a  

linear experience and it's not easy to skip around in the book.



I expect the information gained from the trials outlined in the  

article will go a long way to helping ebook publishers and ereader  

makers to improve the experience. A hyperlinked index, thumbnails of  

images and figures etc. will make it much more like using the paper  

book.



Just my opinion, Margaret



On 6-Sep-10, at 9:13 AM, Ed wrote:



Hi, do you infer that ebooks as text books are really unpopular, or  

are they

OK as text books when read on a computer?  Thanks, Ed.





    
     

    
    


 



  










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