> Text books are physically expensive and difficult to manage. A tablet or laptop, in theory, can reduce those costs to that of IP (if any). Plus the cost of t

> Text books are physically expensive and difficult to manage. A tablet or laptop, in theory, can reduce those costs to that of IP (if any). Plus the cost of the laptop or tablet of course. I don't see how it's cheaper or easier; at my high school some classes used books that were over 20 years old; that was fine because the basics of things like science or language doesn't change that fast; f=ma is still f=ma, a verb is still a verb, etc. A laptop will last what, 3 or 4 years, at best? Books require some maintenance and management, but it was one janitor doing it for all of the school, alongside his other duties. It's a job many could learn in a few weeks. Maintaining laptops or tablets seems significantly harder and more expensive. We had several hundred students; that's probably at least one or two full-time high-knowledge employees instead of one part-time relatively low-knowledge worker.