Kindle DX may not make the grade in Princeton – but it’s early yet

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By Paul Biba

This is pretty early in the game, but the Daily Princetonian is reporting that some users aren’t too thrilled with the Kindle experience. In the pilot program 50 students received Kindle DX units which contained their source readings. Here is what one student had to say. Read the article to get some positive opinions as well.

“I hate to sound like a Luddite, but this technology is a poor excuse of an academic tool,” said Aaron Horvath ’10, a student in Civil Society and Public Policy. “It’s clunky, slow and a real pain to operate.”

Horvath said that using the Kindle has required completely changing the way he completes his coursework.

“Much of my learning comes from a physical interaction with the text: bookmarks, highlights, page-tearing, sticky notes and other marks representing the importance of certain passages — not to mention margin notes, where most of my paper ideas come from and interaction with the material occurs,” he explained. “All these things have been lost, and if not lost they’re too slow to keep up with my thinking, and the ‘features’ have been rendered useless.”

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