[citation][nom]matt_b[/nom]I don't know how others feel about this kind of thing, but I cannot stand having a complex subject like calculus or chemistry and have the textbook in a digital format. There's something about having the tangible pages in front and being able to bounce around while working with them. School books rarely "read" like a novel does where it's linear, perhaps this in large part shapes my view on this. There's nothing "revolutionary" about this transition like the two companies here call it and make you want to believe in my opinion.[/citation]
Although I agree that paper books are more "real" and have a certain "feel" to them, I also attribute some long-term pain in my shoulder to Cutnell and Johnson forcing me to carry around a 5 pound physics book amongst 3 or 4 other the same size nearly 17 years ago, at the end of it the most interesting lesson in physics I learned was that gravity really sucks and a Kindle or a Nook would have been a small price to pay (figuratively and literally) to ditch all the dead trees and be able to play ball with my kids without the aid of painkillers.