No thanks - sticky back plastic is far more versatile. Annotations with diagrams finely written with pencil or smudged around with a lopping great big finger?

No thanks - sticky back plastic is far more versatile. Annotations with diagrams finely written with pencil or smudged around with a lopping great big finger? Not possible with certain DRM encumbered digital copies. It was more of a point that the iPad wouldn't survive GCSE/A level chemistry or a machine shop for instruction whereas a book would even with minor acid or fire damage. We had to buy our textbooks. I bet that they aren't that generous all of a sudden. Clunting someone with an A level mathematics textbook end on stopped a mugging. If it was an iPad, you'd be the one being mugged (I grew up in a shitty bit of London)