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Ebook Readers

Why don't schools switch to EBook Readers to cut down on the number of books students have to carry?

If I was a student, today, I would scan all my books into Adobe Acrobat files to keep in a laptop.

Ebook readers, while great for carrying lots of books around, have some disadvantages for students.

All of them are fragile, and none of the current dedicated ebook readers are really good at PDFs. I don't know if any of them are letter-sized, which means you have to deal with either very tiny pages, or zooming in and scrolling to read.

Laptops have relatively short battery lives, and laptop screens aren't optimized for reading books; they wind up with a lot of wasted space, or playing zoom-and-scroll games.

You can't hold an ebook open to three different sections and flip between them to compare facts. With some software, you can mark up PDFs, but a lot of readers and most laptops don't have access to those features. Scanned PDFs aren't searchable unless someone runs OCR on them, so they're slightly more troublesome to look through than paper books; you can't flip quickly through them the way you can with paper.

Some software allows PDF bookmarking, but some ebook readers & some laptops don't have access to that, either.

It's a great idea, but the technology just isn't quite ready for students to switch to digital books yet.

Some discussions of the pros & cons:

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51073

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46478

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37744

A look at new (and upcoming) e-book readers

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Are there any ebook readers that you can read pirated ebooks on?

I heard the Sony Reader has anti-piracy measures that prevent you from reading ebooks from torrent sites. I would be very much interested to know if there are other readers that don't have such limitations. I am interested in a purely hypothetical capacity, obviously.
Just to clarify, not talking about software like Adobe or Foxit I mean an actual handheld electronic ebook reader.

The Sony e-reader will display plain text files well. I have downloaded ASCII files that are public domain from project Gutenberg. The Sony software will display PDF files, but they have to be formatted for the smaller page size.

It is only true that books that you buy are locked to your reader.

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