Students Complain About Devices for Reading E-Books

Jen Young points us to This Chronicle.com story on a report on a study conducted at Ball State University.

They say E-book technology needs some improvement before students will be willing to use e-books instead of textbooks. They found that students had various complaints about the performance of the e-book devices. But students who used e-books did just as well on quizzes as those who used printed texts.

Navigating through digital texts was one of the e-book users\’ biggest complaints. They found moving from page to page \”tedious.\” They also found it difficult to find specific chapters in texts and to find particular words.

August 26, 2002 by Uncategorized 0

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