Re: E-books Fail The Classroom Test

I tutor some kids who go to private schoolwho receive ebooks and macs with which to read the ebooks. They turn the macs in at the end of the school year

Rick

On Mon Sep 6th, 2010 7:19 AM HST geebs wrote:

>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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