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Devices To Take Textbooks Beyond Text

Posted by timothy on from the swipe-credit-card-to-continue-reading dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a New York Times piece about the tumultuous transition to electronic devices, instead of printed materials, for text. "Newspapers and novels are moving briskly from paper to pixels, but textbooks have yet to find the perfect electronic home. They are readable on laptops and smartphones, but the displays can be eye-taxing. Even dedicated e-readers with their crisp printlike displays can’t handle textbook staples like color illustrations or the videos and Web-linked supplements publishers increasingly supply. Now there is a new approach that may adapt well to textbook pages: two-screen e-book readers with a traditional e-paper display on one screen and a liquid-crystal display on the other to render graphics like science animations in color."

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  1. Why not have a pc / netbook that can do more for by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why not have a pc / netbook that can do more for about the same cost?

  2. garbage by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even dedicated e-readers with their crisp printlike displays can't handle textbook staples like color illustrations or the videos and Web-linked supplements publishers increasingly supply.

    Last time I looked, dead trees don't handle videos and Web-linked[sic] supplements either.

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  3. Battery life? by pancakegeels · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would like a *cheap* usb ebook screen so I can reduce the eye-strain when reading text at work/home etc. Why doesn't that exist?