My take on electronic readers replacing paper textbooks in the classroom

[Rowan]

There's been a lot of talk recently about the myth of the paperless
office, but at the same time, there's been a lot of talk about the
rise of electronic reading devices. I find these two arguments
contradictory and tend to think that the rise of electronic reading
devices (and e-newspaper, e-paper, etc) will ultimately be the tools
that help us realize the promise of the paperless office.

The key, I think, is to switch people over to these new technologies
while they are young, before they have settled into a particular way
of working. Hence, I've written a post that covers this issue:

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Electronic Readers Will Replace Paper Textbooks

The days of paper textbooks in School classrooms are numbered. The
prospect of being able to carry around all of your schools books on
one electronic device — with the data backed up on the web, of course
— will be too great for many to resist. How long will it take? Who
knows, but 5-10 years is a reasonable guess.

Read the rest:
http://digitaldocuments.debenu.com/2008/10/07/electronic-readers-will-replace-paper-textbooks/
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Does anyone else share this opinion or have a different opinion on the
topic?

[Milind Joshi]

Post by Rowan
There's been a lot of talk recently about the myth of the paperless
office, but at the same time, there's been a lot of talk about the
rise of electronic reading devices. I find these two arguments
contradictory and tend to think that the rise of electronic reading
devices (and e-newspaper, e-paper, etc) will ultimately be the tools
that help us realize the promise of the paperless office.
The key, I think, is to switch people over to these new technologies
while they are young, before they have settled into a particular way
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Electronic Readers Will Replace Paper Textbooks
The days of paper textbooks in School classrooms are numbered. The
prospect of being able to carry around all of your schools books on
one electronic device — with the data backed up on the web, of course
— will be too great for many to resist. How long will it take? Who
knows, but 5-10 years is a reasonable guess.
Read the rest:http://digitaldocuments.debenu.com/2008/10/07/electronic-readers-will...
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Does anyone else share this opinion or have a different opinion on the
topic?

I agree with you on this, though only partially.
I'm a part of the "e" generation, started working extensively with
computers with digital displays when I was 12. I'm at a computer
screen at least 12 hours every day.
I rarely ever print documents and work-related information, and
everything that arrives in print, such as invoices and bills, I try to
get into digital form ASAP.

At work, we specialize in helping people get a handle on mountains of
paper information, as far as our office goes, we are indeed paperless,
no filing cabinets and no stacks of paper lying around. Different with
books and periodicals though, even at work. We have many bookshelves,
and that is inspite of the fact that we have many years of periodicals
on DVD and access to the latest subscription-based documentation and
research portals.

I'm not too comfortable with ebooks personally. I prefer to read
magazines and newspapers in paper form, and the same goes for books.
Somehow, I find ebook readers are way too delicate and you cannot drop
them or leave them just about anywhere, and you run out of battery-
power or forget the charger... that said, I have a long-life battery
on my laptop, which I take with me almost everywhere. Still it cannot
compete with the convenience of paper books, magazines and newspapers
yet.

Regards,
Milind Joshi
IDEA TECHNOSOFT INC.
http://www.ideatechnosoft.com