Welcome to my blog. This is my first post. Electronic books have become increasingly popular in recent years. A typical electronic book reader can hold up to 1,000+ books. According to The Horizon Report 2010, "advances in electronic reader technology have brought electronic versions of academic texts to a level with printed ones. The newest readers can display graphics of all kinds and make it easy to bookmark and annotate pages and passages. Annotations can be exported, viewed online, shared, and archived. In addition, electronic readers offer keyword searching, instant dictionary lookups and, in some cases, wireless Internet access. The experience of reading and note taking is becoming as easy in electronic form as it is in paper." These advances make it convenient for students; especially college aged. Text books are heavy, especially when you have to carry around more than one at a time. I do not think that electronic book readers will take the place of textbooks in K-12 for some years. At this point e books are still kind of pricey but when their price goes down even further they would be a great alternative to paper textbooks in the classroom.
Here is a link to a video about the Amazon Kindle DX
http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m1XZ6JXHZ5LZEF
image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/ by Jon 'ShakataGaNai' Davis
