USA TODAY: If his professor asks the students to follow along in the textbook, he taps his iPad, opens a digital copy and quickly lands at the right place without thumbing through any pages.
“Instead of carrying around a bunch of books, you have one device with everything on it,” said the 23-year-old student. He also uses the digital textbook’s added tools like flash cards and an online journal that keeps track of the material he’s highlighted. “It’s just much more efficient.”
The price is also much more palatable. Instead of more than $200 for a used textbook at the bookstore, Brown said he paid $80 for his digital copy from Kno, an education software start-up in Silicon Valley… (more)
With textbooks leaving, could the traditional library be far behind?
EDITOR: Libraries are not “traditional” today; they are centers of community activities for people of all ages and needs. The Internet has become one of their main attractions.