Students give the Kindle DX a mixed bag of reactions again: Darden Business School users overwhelmingly concluded that the DX is bad for academic use, but would recommend it for personal use.
What say you, Kakai?
This is an awesome overview of the collegiate pilot programs testing the Kindle DX as a replacement for paper textbooks.
The feedback been extremely revealing; the overall mixed reaction of the Kindle from both students and professors is nothing short of reassuring to the management and advisors at TxtBk.
Why? Because we’ve been saying all along that the reason a device like the Kindle won’t work for education is because all it does is replace the physical textbook with a digital one. What it doesn’t do is significantly change the way students use and share these resources. In other words, considerations need to be made to make a device applicable to this extremely specialized content and marketplace.
