Re: E-books Fail The Classroom Test

I have been working with ebooks from the beginning starting with the Rocket Ebook and now have a IPad for my device and it is best of all.  I have on it 7 different ebook readers and each one handles and feels different.  I have found one that I can customize that is the most comfortable for me to use.  The perfect reader software for textbooks has not been created yet that I have seen but soon someone will put the effort into the software to make it work as it should. For pleasure reading I have found Stanza the most comfortable to read and use and it still could use some improvement in the book listing section but reading is ideal. Just give it time and someone will get the software for textbooks correct. Young people are growing up with the ebooks as a standard and soon will be using them in the beginning. My Grandson has had a fully functioning e reader since he started to learn to read and is comfortable with it.  He was reading Charlot's Web in the 1st grade without help so as technology gets more common for everyone especially the younger ones they will grow up and not know how we did without it.

 
--- In [email protected], Barry <barryem@...> wrote:
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> 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. 
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> Barry
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> --- On Mon, 9/6/10, geebs <geebsjewels@...> wrote:
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> From: geebs <geebsjewels@...>
> Subject: Re: [ebook-community] E-books Fail The Classroom Test
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, September 6, 2010, 12:19 PM
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>       I don't know what the original poster or the article was inferring,  
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> but I would find it very frustrating reading a text book on an ereader.
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> When I studied those many years ago, I would skim through the text  
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> linear experience and it's not easy to skip around in the book.
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> I expect the information gained from the trials outlined in the  
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> Just my opinion, Margaret
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> Hi, do you infer that ebooks as text books are really unpopular, or  
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> OK as text books when read on a computer?  Thanks, Ed.
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