Despite the Kindle’s environmental friendliness, users said they often found its design ill-suited for class readings. Students and faculty participating in the program said it was difficult to highlight and annotate PDF files and to use the folder structure intended to organize documents, according to University surveys. The inability to quickly navigate between documents and view two or more documents at the same time also frustrated users.
The challenges that these students and professors had with the Kindle, in its current form, will hopefully change when the iPad comes out. In college I was lucky enough to have professors that accessed different types of literature/articles and made sure to provide access to these documents in PDF form. Most I never printed out. All of them I did highlight and annotate on my computer. I hope that the iPad will replicate this experience.
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URL: http://bytes.edumacnation.com/post/409338590/u-releases-kindle-pilot-data-the-daily-princetonian
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