eReaders Do Not Support College Student Needs, Study Suggests

washington.edu:

A study of how University of Washington graduate students integrated an Amazon Kindle DX into their course reading provides the first long-term investigation of e-readers in higher education.

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Comments

[hilaritee]

01:44 AM on 05/05/2011

i love my nook color for personal reading but do find it clunky when it comes to professional reading. the note taking is slow and it is not possible to continue a highlight from one page onto another one. the biggest problem is that it does not seem possible to export my notes and comments from my nook color; solving that would considerably improve the nook as a work tool.

[deweydecimal]

12:04 PM on 05/03/2011

"With paper, three quarters of students marked up texts as they read. This included highlighting key passages, underlining, drawing pictures and writing notes in margins."

I really hated this when I was in university. Pay 150$ for a book to highlight it? Ugh. They're called Post-its people.

[FZliveson]

01:55 PM on 05/03/2011

A book is a personal tool. If people mark them up, they go back and re-read.
Not everyone sells their books back to the book store or other students.
Not everyone wants to have a pristine first edition to sell in 75 years for big bucks.
Just because you do things a certain way only makes it right for you. 
Wouldn't you say; or not?
(AND $150 for a text book is robbery!)