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Replacing Textbooks with E-Book Reader

Posted by 0Cole on January 16, 2011 at 7:13pm in Mr Bruns 360 Message Board

Some schools around the world are converting from using many conventional textbooks to using one portable device for learning. By storing all of the school textbooks on this device, say, a Kindle, it would, in time, save schools much, much money. This also decreases the load on students as they lug around twenty to thirty pounds of textbooks on their backs. Most textbooks do have a digital PDF format available for teachers to purchase for educational use. These devices could also eventually replace the need for a school library. There could possibly be a system in the future where schools have virtual libraries where you can "rent" E-books for a specific amount of time. I'm not sure how well or how it would work, but there sure a lot of possibilities for future schooling in the world.

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4Tony January 31, 2011 at 10:52am

Perhaps...
4Lindsey January 31, 2011 at 10:42am

well, that would stop books from being stolen or lost, because everything you rented would be automatically returned. no more damage fines either.
i think this would make things really convenient.
it would be cool if they could automatically update the textbooks too, so we wouldnt have to download outdated ones.
4 Nick January 31, 2011 at 10:32am

that will just make us that more lazy since we aren't carrying anything around.
3makala January 31, 2011 at 8:21am

me personally i don't like the idea.. i don't really carry around that much.. just a notebook, folder and a binder.. i have a nook and although i like to read on that i wouldn't want to have a textbook on it.. why not just get everyone laptops?... you can get online books on there and on the plus side its a bigger screen..
2Brandon January 30, 2011 at 8:19pm

This would be awesome because then students wouldnt have to carry around a lot of books.
2kelsey January 30, 2011 at 8:17pm

I think that would be a pretty good idea. It would defiantly give us a break from having to carry all those books around! Also, I think a lot more people would like this idea.
3brittany January 30, 2011 at 7:55pm

i would LOVE this if that would happen.
3Tyler January 30, 2011 at 2:50pm

i would like that as long as i had access to the actual textbook.
3Dru January 30, 2011 at 2:27pm

thats pretty cool and im sure were headed toward that anyway. id like it since then we wouldnt have to carry anything around except that device. it would just make things much easier
Ron Burgundy January 30, 2011 at 2:11pm

That would be awesome and easy. Instead of buying hundreds of dollars of new books every few years, schools could buy new books every year for very, very cheap.