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Over the past two weeks, 50 students and professors from Princeton University students were given the Amazon Kindle DX as a way to test their ability as an academic tool. Although some of the feedback indicated benefits to the electronic reader, many of the users have found the device difficult to use and awkward.
The main issue seems to be that students need to completely overhaul the way that they do coursework in order to use the Kindle DX. Instead of marking up texts or using post-it notes to highlight important points, you are required to use the annotations feature in the Kindle DX. Students feel that this feature takes too long to enable and it is much quicker to simply use a highlighter on a book. One student involved in the pilot described the DX as, “It’s clunky, slow and a real pain to operate.”
In May, the university had announced that they would be partnering with Amazon to run a pilot program as part of a sustainability initiative to save paper. Amazon.com was founded by Jeff Bezos, who graduated from Princeton University in 1986. There have been rumors that the university may decide to not continue using the Kindle next year.
Read: [The Daily Princetonian]
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