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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Tell us your thoughts on the growing offerings in digital books and textbooks. Do you like the idea of having your books on a Phone, Tablet or other device? What might be the drawbacks? What percentage of textbooks do you think will be digital 10 years from now? Do you think you’d read more if you had access to e-books? How do you think e-books will change studying and learning?
         

              My thoughts on the growing offering of digital textbooks and books in general it's a good thing that the world is taking that step into the technology  world so to speak.We needed to upgrade from those heavy and out dated text books.That not only hurt our back to carry but also gave us a boring view on english,history and any other major course we take in school.i think it's a very smart idea to upgrade  to tablets and other devices like a phone to do school work because those devices can be a big help when your at home and you can''t reach out to a teacher for help and you have to look at your device for guidance.
             The drawbacks of having a tablet and other gadget is that it may be missed used .And you would be spending more money on getting the devices fixed then what you paid for it.And tablets and other devices may have glitches in it and may not work to the best of it ability.The kids may  lose the device then will have to pay but for the time they are out of a device they are not getting the full affect of the learning experience .also a students can get distracted by the tablets because they are able to put games on it. 
            The percentage of textbooks that will be digital in 10 years  is 100%of them. For the simple fact that now a days people have there devices stuck to there hip. They live off there device they have everything on it including important documents .If i was able to get e-books i would hands down read more .E-books would change learning by giving us another view on how to look at a book and reading can  be fun.