Congress wants an e-book reader for low-income kids

Congress wants an e-book reader for low-income kids:

"wiz420 | about 14 hours ago | permalink They should take this money and spend it on open-source textbooks. Has so much changed in the field of high school algebra that new, copyrighted works need to be purchased on dead-tree in order to teach our kids? Take works in the public domain, and adapt them to an electronic, free, model using public funds. I understand this won't work in fields that are rapidly changing, but let's take it as far as we can. Wikipedia is at least as good as most of the textbooks I had in public school, especially in fields like math. I used Wikipedia more than my textbook in college calculus.

Edzo | about 14 hours ago | permalink
Obviously the Federal government should create its own eReader. If the government is capable of offering super-efficient health-care and college loans by cutting out the middle man, Then the same must be true for eReaders.

It will definitely be finished ahead of schedule and under budget, and be the best eReader ever created."