Kindles

There are so many new pieces of technology in the world today and one of them would be the eReaders that are available to us today. The most well-known is the Kindle which was created by Amazon.com in order to reach a higher number of buyers of books. The Kindle is simple to use and is fairly inexpensive compared to some of the other technologies that we have in the world. It is priced at a little under 200 dollars and the newest version comes with free Wi-Fi and 3G network that allows the owner to download books in 60 seconds from anywhere. This system allows the owner to have 3,500 books at their command anytime or anywhere that they want. The question that some have however is how can this be used in the classroom? The answer is that it will take some time before it can be fully used in the classroom as a replacement for textbooks and libraries. In order to do this, a school would need the funding to buy close to a hundreds of these Kindles in order to have enough for the high demand of free-reading books. Then there is the problem of the textbooks. Amazon has a fairly extensive selection of textbooks, but they do not have them all in ebook form yet. This will take some time, but when the electronic versions of these textbooks are finally made, we will see a large increase in the purchasing and use of the Kindle.


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