Rekindling university textbooks
A few days ago I talked about how ludicrously expensive university textbooks are. Here is a quick recap:
Knowledge shouldn’t be expensive. Textbooks blah blah. Most knowledge is already becoming more accessible. blah blah.
I didn’t know about Amazon’s Kindle, until Kindle 2 came upon the scene. It’s a brilliant thing that was bound to happen sometime.
Before I go off on a tangent rambling about how useless the education system is becoming (for a later blogpost), university education still exists and with it the need to buy way too expensive textbooks.
There is already a lot been said about this on the net, but I really feel that something like Kindle needs to be used for textbooks. The ease of use and the amount of money that can be saved is tremendous.
When Kindle or something equivalent finally takes over the textbook market, the old textbooks won’t be usless though. It can still be used as kindling. *ba dum tish*.
