New generation of reading

Life skills Editorial

Justice Perry

11/28/11

Text books online

The article I read is about text books being on tablets like the kindle and Ipad at some schools. The popularity of the kindle and the Ipad has caused some schools to make their books availible on the two tablets. The article says that the e books are the gateway to the future and so the kids and the shcools might as well get used to it. The United States estimates that the e books will generate 267.3 million dollars which is a 44.3 percent increase from last year.

I think that having textbooks online or on a handheld device is a bad idea. I would rather read a book printed on paper and just have to flip pages and not have to press a million buttons just to get to the book. Also I think it would be easier to read the book if you have it in your hands then if you have to look and read the words on the screen. I can understand how schools would want to get a jump on it right now because the e books are going to be the way everyone reads someday but today I would hate to go to a school where I had to read e books.

I understand also that if you have the books on the tablets that they will generate more money which is what evetything is about but I think that it might even be a bad idea. If a school has I pads that I can take home to read things with I don't know if I would actually use it for reading considering all the other things that you can do with the I pad.

In conclusion I don't like the idea of schools moving towards the e books but I understand why it is happening.