Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My kids are excited about the iPad for exactly the same reason.? Their input is that for classes they need to take and couldn't care less about the book afterward, they will order hardcopies so they can resell once the class is done.? But, for classes in their major area of study, they are very interested in the eBook and iPad.? They too complain the MacBooks and text books are too large and cumbersome to carry all the time. I'm excited about the iPad to replace this crummy HP netbook I'm sharing with HP service department.? It's beginning to collect frequent flyer miles from FedEx! Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> To: "Leica LUG" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, February 5, 2010 9:41:04 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [Leica] iPad and textbooks Frank is right about textbooks. ?My daughter is in college and, while iPad would not replace her MacBook, it could easily replace the 10 lbs of textbooks she has to cart around in her backpack all over campus. That alone would be well worth the price of the iPad. In fact, she would be able to leave her MacBook back in the dorm more often if she could use the iPad to study and write, then bring it back, sync with her MacBook and continue working. --Jim - - - - - - - Why so many college textbooks at $50 a pop? Many colleges, including mine, look for a magic number in evaluating professors for promotion. Our college counts the number of papers published in academic journals as a major index. Three peer reviewed papers equal one textbook. Judging from personal experience it is quicker, and often easier, to write a textbook for undergraduate courses than to do the research for a substantive paper. Naturally the publishers want to sell co-pies of the books that they print so the professors are encouraged to require all students to buy the latest edition of the book. The iPad, using books accessed from the internet, will kill that market. The colleges will be forced to use a different metric than "Publish or perish." Larry Z _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information