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In Trial, Kindles Disappointing University Users
Phurge writes "When Princeton announced its Kindle e-reader pilot program last May, administrators seemed cautiously optimistic that the e-readers would both be sustainable and serve as a valuable academic tool. But less than two weeks after 50 students received the free Kindle DX e-readers, many of them said they were dissatisfied and uncomfortable with the devices. 'I hate to sound like a Luddite, but this technology is a poor excuse of an academic tool,' said Aaron Horvath, a student in Civil Society and Public Policy. 'It's clunky, slow and a real pain to operate.' 'Much of my learning comes from a physical interaction with the text: bookmarks, highlights, page-tearing, sticky notes and other marks representing the importance of certain passages — not to mention margin notes, where most of my paper ideas come from and interaction with the material occurs,' he explained. 'All these things have been lost, and if not lost they're too slow to keep up with my thinking, and the "features" have been rendered useless.'"
Were they uncomfortable and dissatisfied when their assignments vanished shortly before their due dates?
shuddap! the weight builds character, and prepares your posture for a lifetime of grovelling which every engineer needs when speaking to MBAs.
Oh come on, everyone knows the hand scrawled notes in the margins is where you find the most interesting spells.
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Sometimes the margin is just too narrow to contain your magnificent proof. Therefore you can just claim credit for it for 400 years.
But the DRM in it is state-of-art!
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If medical students practice at home, we call it "phychopathic serial killer". Not all (or in fact; most) studies can't really be practiced as a hobby.
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I agree. Harry Potter could never have made that potion on his first try if he had taken a new textbook!
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"This ereader is the property of the Half Blood Prince". Nah, it just doesn't sound as good.