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Re:College Students Can Now Rent Textbooks Electronically Fr... by stuartjmoore on Monday July 18, 2011 @01:43PM (#2777246)
Point #3 is purely a UI consideration, one where electronic textbooks could easily outdo their paper counterparts. Need to know the value of a constant in an equation? Just click on it.

The Internet and electronics will turn learning upside down. Let's hope we don't drag our feet.

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Re:College Students Can Now Rent Textbooks Electronically Fr... by sorbus on Monday July 18, 2011 @02:00PM (#2777339)
> Point #3 is purely a UI consideration, one where electronic textbooks could easily outdo their paper counterparts.

Emphasis added. Until they do, it's still an issue.

> The Internet and electronics will turn learning upside down. Let's hope we don't drag our feet.

And let's hope that the people developing software to make this revolution possible don't drag their feet either.

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Re:College Students Can Now Rent Textbooks Electronically Fr... by cbs on Monday July 18, 2011 @04:51PM (#2778181)
>The Internet and electronics will turn learning upside down. Let's hope we don't drag our feet.

Awesome! But in the meantime I'm not going to deal with shitty UI because it might get better. I don't buy anything for my kindle other than things I expect to read cover to cover because it simply is terrible to navigate.

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