Kindle: Mixed Reviews in Experiment at Princeton

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…a recent report released by Princeton University, documenting the institution’s semester-long experiment with integrating mobile reading devices into courses, found many students are reluctant to give up the paper-and-pen study techniques they’ve honed for years.</p>

<p>“Students don’t just passively read. They circle, they underline,” said Serge Goldstein, associate chief information officer at Princeton. “That’s really not easy to do with these devices.”

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[SmithieandProud]

<p>I can understand that. I LOVE my Kindle for recreational reading (I take it on planes, to the coffee shop, to the subway, everywhere), but I wouldn’t want to use it for classwork. I’m an obsessive highlighter, it helps me mark what I want to study later for tests and things as I read. You can highlight on a Kindle, and take notes, but it’s slower than doing it by hand and also not in color. Someday, when we have e-ink type screens that are in color and are touch-able (so I can just drag my finger across them to highlight passages) it will be better.</p>

[ColoradoMomof2]

<p>I agree with SmithieandProud. My Kindle is one of my favorite possessions for pleasure reading, but until it has the functionality that Smithie mentions, it really wouldn’t work very well for classroom reading/learning applications.</p>