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Princeton Students in Kindle DX Pilot Program Sure Hate the Kindle DX [Kindle Dx]
Gizmodo —
... with the material occurs. All these things have been lost, and if not lost they're too slow to keep up with my thinking, and the ‘features' have been rendered useless. Yee-ouch! Further complaints include the fact that the lack of concrete page numbers make citing sources a huge pain in the ass and the fact that you need to charge up the battery for it to work. I guess physical textbooks will be around for a while longer, eh? [Daily Princetonian via Engadget]
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Los alumnos que utilizaron el Kindle en la Universidad de Princeton tienen demasiadas quejas
Gizmologia —
... Los que tuvieron la posibilidad de ir a clase con uno de los lectores digitales de Amazon tuvieron muchas quejas porque el Kindle no permite hacer anotaciones en los bordes de pantalla y no permite subrayar el texto. Esto hace que los alumnos no puedan hacer anotaciones, lo que es igual a que no les sirva porque aquellos que han ido a un aula sabrán que hacer anotaciones de lo que va diciendo el profesor es más que fundamental. ...
The Daily Engadget: Kindle DX Failing Princeton U., Real-Life Transformer
Switched —
... . Now, just a few weeks into the school year, the first impressions of the device are making themselves known, and they're not good. ...
Will E-books As Text Books Ever Work?
WebProNews Feed —
... Ebooks are a great thing, unless you can’t use them the way that you want to use them or the way that you have grown to use them. Some people highlight massive sections of books to underscore what they think they need to know. Some people write in the margins, and others simply never crack open the books at all. Some students don’t even bother to purchase books thinking that they will never need them in the classroom. All of these are valid uses, and wholly dependent upon the person that is using them. ...
