I hear more and more positive things said about e-books and the readers especially about the Kindle. And with my last project for school, which was about formulating a way to improve our local community, I thought about the overall benefits of e-books and “e-textbooks” in our public schools. Introducing e-books and e-textbooks on a mass scale in the schools has a lot of potential benefits.

Well for starters, replacing most, if not all, those clunky textbooks that cost our school districts anywhere from 50-90 dollars or sometimes even higher per textbook with nice cheap update-able environmentally friendly e-textbooks. Read the rest of this entry »