Brainstorm - Nicholson Baker on the Kindle - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Brainstorm - Nicholson Baker on the Kindle - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "My course, WWS-AMS325 (jointly offered by the Woodrow Wilson School and the American Studies Program) is on “Civil Society and Public Policy,” and all of the weekly assignments are either complete books or book chapters. All but one is available from Amazon, so that was not a problem for me. The 20 enrolled students will each be offered a Kindle DX. They will be able to highlight and annotate text (if they can manage the “tea party” of a keyboard). A bigger challenge, I think (noted by Nicholson) will be finding specific passages for class discussion, since the device specifies “locations” at the foot of each page, and these point only to the Kindle e-version of the text. If you refer to your own analog copy, you have a problem (and if one or more of the students opts out of the pilot, it may make things difficult). The Kindle has an excellent search capacity, so you can find any passage easily, but doing that while carrying on a group discussion may be a challenge. We’ll see."