The story I found this morning about the Kindle DX pilot program at UVA reminded me that it wasn’t the only pilot last fall. I’ve found reports on several of the pilots, and I’ll write them up as I get the chance.
Princeton University released the final report on their e-reader pilot last month. You can download it here. The results were mixed, but generally the same as that of UVA. The Kindle doesn’t make a good digital textbook. It’s very good at displaying text, but like most epaper based devices it falls far short of the annotation abilities most students require.
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Weekly Roundup – 21 March 2010 | The Digital Reader // Mar 21, 2010 at 8:48 pm
[...] More Results From the Kindle Textbook Pilot Programs [...]
The UW e-reader study repeats the obvious | The Digital Reader // May 3, 2011 at 2:19 pm
[...] that the UW ran iduring the 2009-2010 school year. Those results matched the results of virtually every Kindle DX pilot program. The KDX doesn’t work as a digital [...]