Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/05

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Subject: [Leica] iPad and textbooks
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 07:24:51 -0800
References: <6a7544a61002050641o3967942fs1fbab13996813846@mail.gmail.com> <D853B751-8D99-4D25-9BB5-0BBE3252448C@aotera.org>
 
On Feb 5, 2010, at 7:20 AM, Spencer Cheng wrote:

> $50 a pop? Not even when I went to school a longtime ago. :)
> 
> Engineering and computer science textbooks are more likely to be $100-$200 
> today. I've bought a technical book for work once that was about $1/page.
> 
> Publish or perish still applies though. How else will they judge if 
> someone is worthy of a professorship?
> 
> If I am in school today, I would happily buy anything that would allow me 
> not to carry around 5Kg of paper every day to/from class. I have computer 
> so an extension like an iPad would not be a problem.
> 
> Regards,
> Spencer

and all of this apples to medical school where books cost $300 and more, 
weigh a ton, hardly get read, and are replaced in 2-3 years by an updated 
version that everyone absolutely must have...

you guys are convincing me...


Steve
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] iPad and textbooks)
Message from spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng) ([Leica] iPad and textbooks)