Re: [seul-edu] ebook readers and other such devices...

[Bill <brk@slip.net>]

Great timing, I have just set up a public maillist to discuss such devices.
As of yet, the list is empty, but anyone is welcome to join it.
                            ebook-device-subscribe@onelist.com

Adam Cody wrote:

>  Last night while I'll reading the great replies back to my posting
> about home-schoolers I started to think about what else would be a
> variable I'm missing in a "complete schooling" enviroment. The device
> itself ! The pc isn't the best device to use for schooling. Period. A
> desktop computer isn't mobile, isn't optimized for comfort, and other
> such problems arise when you think that a child might need to be in
> front of some device for 4 to 8 hours per day to recieve the educational
> content.
>   I remember looking at the ebook related stuff a while back and think
> close but no cigar. They had no or very little "input" ability and used
> non open source formatting for text.

Check it out.
Bill
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