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I would have been more inclined to agree until the Kindle Fire came out. That is starting to change things.

• dangson 15y ago
  I don't have a Kindle Fire, but I imagine it isn't very useful for textbooks. Thinking back to my school days, textbooks were huge and closer to the size of an iPad than to a Fire. The Fire's screen is great for blocks of text, but it's way too small to clearly display charts and tables.
  • ChrisLTD 15y ago
    In landscape mode it should be able to fit a decent sized chart or table on screen.
    • ceejayoz 15y ago
      Next to the relevant text section, as with a paper textbook?
      • ChrisLTD 15y ago
        No, but that would be tough on the current iPad as well, given the relatively low resolution compared to printed books.
        • ceejayoz 15y ago
          I really don't think a chart/video next to some explanatory text would tax an iPad screen. News websites often use a similar layout and work fine.