http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/ Engadget Comments for Kindle DX trial at Darden concludes it's academically woeful, personally enjoyable http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/Yeah sure, I really hate myself and want my eyes to bleed. ]]>May 13th 2010 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/Oh, please, the iPad is a terrible excuse for a textbook!]]>May 13th 2010 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/
Of course we would get 'severe retinal damage' if we where to stare directly into the sun. But we don't such things do we?

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The iPad I think would be a great tool but I think the battery being embedded could make this a problem over time as the batteries quality degrades. The other big issue with the iPad I think is just the screens glare. Which would make it hard as most of these classrooms don't have the greatest lighting in the first place.

Then I thought the Courier would be the next big leap in educational tools and MS canned that.

Oh well, it will come eventually.]]>May 13th 2010 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/
For those who read cases for Business school, there are obvious reasons why this failed. The word 'reading' is misleading, because case 'reading' is actually about reading and marking-up (highlighting, writing in notes...).

The Kindly may have highlighting capabilities, but without a touchscreen the process is too slow. Also, there is no capability to easily write notes into white space.

The iPad should be able to address the mark-up limitations of the Kindle. However, when the class is discussing a case, it needs to be incredibly fast/easy to navigate pages back and forth. I think the iPad will have trouble because its screen is too small to replace 8.5x11 case documents. Remember, when a case binder is open in front of someone, they are looking at Two 8.5x11 sheets at once. Spreading a single page over 2+ pages terribly complicates navigation. Anyone fumbling through iPad half-pages will be frustrated.

For an e-reader to fully replace paper cases it should also have a battery that can last a full day (though atypical, when its needed for 16 hours, that's the day when a battery failure is tragic), and (of course) causes no more eye strain than paper over 2 years of reading. ]]>May 13th 2010 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/exactly!! And remembering the answer is on page 59, second paragrah down during the bio test is classic. lol. No way in hell ebook will ever recreate that experience]]>May 13th 2010 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/
Or in that table on... what page was that again?]]>May 13th 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/Has anyone other than Jeff Bezos looked at the Kindle and thought:
"Gee, this is the perfect textbook"?

Using books (real, actual books) in an academic setting are hard to beat.]]>May 13th 2010 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/that's where the courier would have came in, as it has 2 pages...]]>May 13th 2010 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/
Yeah, really. First post should have simply been: "Duh."

Alas, iPad morons abound and now we're stuck with a moronic downranked-into-oblivion waste of a comment.]]>May 14th 2010 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/
There is more than just black and white guys. The fact that someone doesn't support a product, doesn't eventually mean that it's hate! Where is the silver lining there?]]>May 13th 2010 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/People want to hop about, flick to the right section - and so on.

That experience is simply not possible on a slow e-ink display.
e-ink is good for serial reading only.

C.]]>May 13th 2010 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/
I tried reading a technical paper on the iPad and even then the interface was lacking. I don't think electronic interfaces just work well for textbook and tech manual type reading. However like most grad students, I end up having to read hundreds of pdf files, and e readers are at least convenient for storing them and not having to print out hundreds of pages. I find the kindle screen easier on my eyes than the iPad but its really a user preference, you have try both and see what you like.]]>May 13th 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/While I agree that there is no ideal text-book apps for the iPad yet...
There are one or two apps which show some promise. Perhaps in a year we will have something?

But no software is ever going to make e-ink fast enough for this kind of application. Rapid navigation is the very first thing that is needed in reference books.]]>May 13th 2010 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/I could envision some workable system on the iPad, say a two finger swipe flips 10 pages, a 3 finger swipe flips 100, but is the best use of tech recreating a virtual book? Is a virtual book what people want? I don't know the answer to this question. There already exists a paradigm for the kind of book that would work well on an iPad and that's a website, but textbook companies wont want to use that.]]>May 13th 2010 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/
It's good for reading email, if you've got $600 to spend on an email reader. ]]>May 13th 2010 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/
Any advice from you, I'd take with a grain of salt.]]>May 13th 2010 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/a lot of people said the ipad is for the rich and the technically challenged]]>May 13th 2010 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/
One day ereaders will replace textbooks, but not today and not with the kindle. not with the ipad either.]]>May 13th 2010 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/
Future students will marvel at images of their predecessors lugging around knapsacks full of heavy textbooks, and lining up at the college bookstore to unload them at the end of the semester.

Sure, their eyes may bleed *a little*, but their spines will be nice and straight (unlike mine).]]>May 13th 2010 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/May 13th 2010 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/kindle-dx-trial-at-darden-concludes-its-academically-woeful-pe/Plenty of others do. What abotu one of them?]]>May 13th 2010 7:40PM