College and the Electronic Book Reader wants Reading Devices

College and the Electronic Book Reader wants Reading Devices

Luckily for the children of this generation technology is still in the midst of its revolution. New products are appearing all the time and they are updated as fast as they can be made. The Kindle is a good example of this. In less than a year it’s had two updates and there are now two options to choose from just out of Amazon if you’re in the market for an electronic book reader.

The newest release is the Kindle DX. This is definitely the big brother to Kindle 2, in size and function. However this also applies with regard to price.

This may change as newer options are released but at the moment you definitely pay for the extra features. It weighs about as much as a standard book, and has Amazon’s innovative screen technology that makes it feel as though you’re reading a genuine hard copy book rather than a computer screen.

Amazon is currently undertaking some market research at a number of colleges in the U.S. These include University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and the students here have been given a Kindle DX electronic book reader to use and see how they go with college work using it. Hopefully from this and other similar studies Amazon will produce an option designed specifically for the students.

If so, the college experience could be changed in a way that no one else has affected it in decades. The larger screen and capability to hold thousands of texts at once means that the Kindle could become the electronic book reader that replaces books in colleges all around the world. Students could store their text books from previous years to look back on and use this as their main learning tool.

It remains to be seen what exactly will come of the study but hopefully it’ll lead to some improvements that will make electronic book readers a vital piece of technology in school.

College and the Electronic Book Reader wants Reading Devices