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eBook Readers question by : Why don’t schools switch to EBook Readers to cut down on the number of books students have to carry?
If I was a student, today, I would scan all my books into Adobe Acrobat files to keep in a laptop.
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Answer by April W
cause most schools can’t afford it.
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as an owner of an ipod touch, iphone, ipad and an android tablet and phone i can safely say Aldiko is the best ereader i have ever used on any platform. its very responsive and well laid out. Navigating the software is very intuitive and comfortable. it supports a great many formats which has saved me the hassle of converting my books to a format it can handle. But what really sold me was that unlike a lot of readers you can import your books with ease either from their multitude of online repositories or by importing from your sd card. You can even email it to yourself and get it straight from your email. Their support team was also very friendly and quick. i had an issue with brightness that turned out to be a “feature” of my phone and they had responded and fixed it within an afternoon. I only give it 5 stars because 6 isn’t an option.
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|Best reader available!,
Aldiko was the first reader I installed on my Android device quite some time ago. I always thought it was great but a buggy update made me uninstall it and move on to Kobo. Now I’m back to Aldiko and it’s better than ever, mainly because I can read my pdf books. It renders each page beautifully and picks up on the page where I left off. I love it! No complaints. This app is a must!
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|Most students can’t afford it either. You are assuming that many students have computers, and believe it or not, that is not the case.
Furthermore, not all books are electronic documents. You did hear what just happened with Kindle and Catcher in the Rye, right? (If not search it.) I would imagine that most textbook companies do not have their books in electronic form.
And as the first poster said, what would schools have to pay to get the electronic copy for all their students? Consider what they pay now for licensing computer programs. The textbook companies need to recoup their money some how….
Actually more and more textbooks are available for the Amazon Kindle, and they are cheaper than actual textbooks. It is very good for saving money and lifting the heavy book weights from students.
There is a simple review about this here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR27E3WBFOF8TK1%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Frdp%255Fperm&tag=more_info-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
I’ve also talked about textbooks on the eBook Readers here, if you’re interested:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090720135726AAUiQMG
Ebook readers, while great for carrying lots of books around, have some disadvantages for students.
All of them are fragile, and none of the current dedicated ebook readers are really good at PDFs. I don’t know if any of them are letter-sized, which means you have to deal with either very tiny pages, or zooming in and scrolling to read.
Laptops have relatively short battery lives, and laptop screens aren’t optimized for reading books; they wind up with a lot of wasted space, or playing zoom-and-scroll games.
You can’t hold an ebook open to three different sections and flip between them to compare facts. With some software, you can mark up PDFs, but a lot of readers and most laptops don’t have access to those features. Scanned PDFs aren’t searchable unless someone runs OCR on them, so they’re slightly more troublesome to look through than paper books; you can’t flip quickly through them the way you can with paper.
Some software allows PDF bookmarking, but some ebook readers & some laptops don’t have access to that, either.
It’s a great idea, but the technology just isn’t quite ready for students to switch to digital books yet.
Some discussions of the pros & cons:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51073
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46478
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37744