In my opinion, textbooks will forever be the dominate student resource and people who call for its death are a bit naive. As a student in a very tech-oriented

In my opinion, textbooks will forever be the dominate student resource and people who call for its death are a bit naive. As a student in a very tech-oriented school, I have experienced attempts to bring knowledge exclusively digital and online (homework, lectures, tests, etc.). And the more tech is piled on us, the more inconvenient it gets. Textbooks have one advantage that the internet will never have: centralized information. If I'm doing a physics problem and need to look up information about electromagnetic waves, I'll flip to the index, look it up, read the passage, then make margin notes or perhaps bookmark it. This is way too difficult to reproduce with a Kindle or something similar. Even if there was a device that had all of those features, I doubt they could do better than the tried and true method. However, what I see is what I reluctantly think of as textbooks 2.0. No more way too expensive textbooks for a high school history class. Instead, teachers will hopefully take more time to figure out exactly what they will teach and textbook makers will size down their resources to accommodate. Did I really need to buy a $90 ancient history textbook when we only read 50 pages of it? Did I really need to buy a $200 Organic Chemistry textbook if we only did the example problems out of them? Let's not kill the textbook but fix the textbook.