Amazon pitched its Kindle Dx as a perfect replacement from having to lug around heavy textbooks in college, but it seems that the drawbacks to the technology have students pining for the old textbooks (found via Slashdot). In fact, in a survey after using the Kindle Dx for a while, “80 percent of MBA students who participated in Amazon’s pilot program said they would not recommend the Kindle DX as a classroom study aid…” And it’s not that they don’t like ebooks. The same report notes that “more than 90 percent liked it for pleasure reading.” Apparently not being able to “scribble notes in the margins, easily highlight passages or fully appreciate color charts and graphics” is sort of a pain for educational settings. Who knew?
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