Will Kindle of something like it but bigger and with color replace textbooks within the next 10 years?
It’s painful to watch these kids hauling 40 pounds of books around. Eventually it would pay for itself but it would have to be very durable. What do you think?
IMO print media (as we know it) is on its way out.
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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe $11.84 We’ve all heard of the Big Bang, and yet few of us truly know what it is. Renowned for making difficult ideas much less difficult than they might first appear, Simon Singh is our perfect guide to explaining why cosmologists believe that the Big Bang is an accurate description of the origin and evolution of the universe. This highly readable and entertaining book tells the story of the many brillia… |
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