I about fell over today when I read a Arizona school is no longer going to use textbooks. Being a technology user, and one that is refreshing my education by taking some college courses. I am not sure how I feel about this. Books that I buy for my classes will never be able to be re-sold because I go heavy on the highlighter and sticky tabs.
Having used manuals on laptops before I am many times frustrated in being able to find specific data quickly. But with desktop search getting better and many document management programs indexing the text and providing hyperlinks to external source data is going to be a powerful tool in education.
I wish Hawaii had the foresight to do something like this but hey I am just happy they have text books. [Yahoo]