Amazon.com’s Kindle fails first college test
25th May 2010
At Princeton University and Portland-based Reed College, a small liberal-arts institution, students praised the Kindle for its long battery life, paper savings and portability. They then complained they couldn’t scribble notes in the margins, easily highlight passages or fully appreciate color charts and graphics.
“You don’t read textbooks in the same linear way as a novel,” said Roesner, 23, a graduate student in computer science and engineering. “You have to flip back and forth between pages, and the Kindle is too slow for that. Also, the bookmarking function is buggy.”
Sounds like a job for the iPad.