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I can't imagine someone cramming for an exam using their textbook much. Maybe for an entry level course, but if it's that low on the totem why would you need to cram?]]>Aug 13th 2009 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 14th 2009 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/
You would seriously try to read a textbook via a 3.5" screen? Your eyes will burst into flames and fall out!

Holly]]>Aug 13th 2009 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/
I took Calculus without being able to use a calculator (let alone a laptop).

Let me ask you this - what will you do when Skynet takes over?
I have actually walked into a restaurant and was asked to leave because they could not serve me or sell me anything due to their computers having gone down. They couldn't sell anything because they could adjust inventory, they couldn't add up the total with tax because their cash registers were tied into the computers - they could not physically make a ticket, add up everything and take my cash money. (I asked)

hfm
www.thessayist.com]]>Aug 13th 2009 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/
I took Calculus without being able to use a calculator (let alone a laptop).

Let me ask you this - what will you do when Skynet takes over?
I have actually walked into a restaurant and was asked to leave because they could not serve me or sell me anything due to their computers having gone down. They couldn't sell anything because they could adjust inventory, they couldn't add up the total with tax because their cash registers were tied into the computers - they could not physically make a ticket, add up everything and take my cash money. (I asked)

hfm
www.thessayist.com]]>Aug 13th 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/
More good news, so far, no text readers have advanced the cause of malicious genocidal AI yet (blog commenting and web browsers, on the other hand...). I'm going to go out on a limb and guess this one won't either.

For the record, I've walked into a restaurant and they weren't able to serve me because the electricity was down and they couldn't actually cook anything. I tried to explain how woodburning stoves would have saved them from that 30 minutes of starvation but then the electricity came back on, and you know kids today... the attention span of a moth on crack.]]>Aug 14th 2009 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 14th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/
Umm... Sleeping with your teachers. I though everyone knew that :P]]>Aug 17th 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/
Just saying....]]>Aug 13th 2009 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/]]>Aug 13th 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Calculus Early Transcendentals!!!]]>Aug 13th 2009 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 14th 2009 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/
Windows Mobile? BlackBerry? Even Symbian? These developers are clueless. ]]>Aug 15th 2009 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/i see my ap biology textbook in the picture. maybe ill get it]]>Aug 13th 2009 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 15th 2009 6:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/
Sad when people supposedly living in the technological world purposefully write something out of ignorance which will negatively influence the average person.

Reading digital text does not require a large screen. I've said this many times. Font and page size is determined relative to how thick a book will end up being. Since digital books don't have a thickness, it doesn't matter how much display area there is.

I have read a few thousand books on my Tapwave Zodiac which has a COLOR backlit 3.8" 480x320 screen. I set it to autoscroll so I don't even have to do manual page flips.

Or, maybe the author is somehow being influenced by Amazon and they don't want Apple to hurt their Kindle sales.]]>Aug 13th 2009 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/
although I would imagine this already exists in some way in the PDA world.

this may be moot, though, soon as the above super-scanning tech makes it production.

(unless, of course, Steve senses a potential revenue source being scuttled)]]>Aug 13th 2009 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 13th 2009 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 14th 2009 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/
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on a different note, one of my classes had all the notes in pdf form. I looked through over 150 slides during the final test on my iphone, just held it between my legs and pretended to be staring at the bottom of my test. the little finger strokes went unnoticed by the invigilators, and even if they did, one touch and im back at home screeen!]]>Aug 14th 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 14th 2009 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/Aug 14th 2009 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/coursesmart-releases-etextbook-reader-for-iphone/
If I had to do it again, I wouldn't mind such an app. As long as the font size can increase and the device had a replaceable battery. Oh, and a built-in projector wont be a bad idea either.]]>Aug 14th 2009 7:21PM