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Conflicting conclusions regarding Kindle use amongst college students
according to this page on the
Princeton University Kindle Pilot Results
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/64/38E35/index.xml?section=topstories
the pilot program was a success because it reduced the use of paper, while according to this Inside Higher Ed article
Highlighting E-Readers
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/02/23/ereaders
many students felt that the Kindle fell short of their needs.
The Princeton study attempts to separate the satisfied users from the rest of the users by calling the satisfied users "power users" while framing the dissatisfied users as less technologically adept, but in looking at the criticisms, I notice that many of the criticisms are highly relevant to people with learning and print disabilities, such as the lack of highlighting capability, or the inability to make annotations to PDF docs. The first article doesn't really frame these dissatisfactions as criticisms, however, but as quote suggestions unquote.
I'm also interested in hearing textbook publishers position on the Kindle read aloud feature, as this is another way that many students with print disabilities manage their reading. Are textbook publishers and individual professors going to allow this feature?
Princeton University Kindle Pilot Results
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/64/38E35/index.xml?section=topstories
the pilot program was a success because it reduced the use of paper, while according to this Inside Higher Ed article
Highlighting E-Readers
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/02/23/ereaders
many students felt that the Kindle fell short of their needs.
The Princeton study attempts to separate the satisfied users from the rest of the users by calling the satisfied users "power users" while framing the dissatisfied users as less technologically adept, but in looking at the criticisms, I notice that many of the criticisms are highly relevant to people with learning and print disabilities, such as the lack of highlighting capability, or the inability to make annotations to PDF docs. The first article doesn't really frame these dissatisfactions as criticisms, however, but as quote suggestions unquote.
I'm also interested in hearing textbook publishers position on the Kindle read aloud feature, as this is another way that many students with print disabilities manage their reading. Are textbook publishers and individual professors going to allow this feature?