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Digital textbooks can offer so much more than print textbook There's no digital interface as fast or intuitive as sticking a finger in a page to flip back and
by gaius 9y ago
Digital textbooks can offer so much more than print textbook
There's no digital interface as fast or intuitive as sticking a finger in a page to flip back and forwards, or scribbling in a margin, or any of the other ways that people physically interact with books. Maybe there will be one day but reading a PDF on a screen doesn't even come close.
- BlackFly 9y agoI hate buying text books in electronic form. I still more where or less to find the equations I am looking for in the 1300 odd page Gravitation by MTW, yet zooming back and forth in even a small pdf is an exercise in frustration.
- qznc 9y agoWhat digital could offer is interaction. See Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/ http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/
- gaius 9y agoI strongly suspect the act of "self-visualisation" of a concept trumps being just shown it for developing true understanding.