And I did say I wanted to post something...

[jolantru]

Print Book versus Ebook.

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[delfinnium]

Man still? >.< I remember once in primary school, one of my teachers said that one day all we would need is a laptop to bring to school. no more of this textbook business!

>.<

Singapore's SFF community being smaller means that we have the potential to do something different, don't we? Since we don't have this giant market of buy-consume-dispose, we could just jump straight to the ebook thing. A lot of singaporeans are always happy to have the latest gadget anyway, arent they?

[jolantru]

Still. Even my daughter's bag weighs a ton. :P

Nope, they are still bringing books to school, even though (for now) they keep most of the heavier ones in the class cupboard. The JC kids have it better. Their bags look lighter. :P

Yep, we do have the potential to do something different. Ebooks are weightless. Might appeal to the image-conscious Singaporean (who want to be seen with iphone, ipad and whatever).

[delfinnium]

Heh - my bag in JC looked lighter because we had notes we had to buy every week instead of textbooks. but in the end it turned out to have GIANT fucking amounts of paper - and that's not even including the TYS that we had to use, one for each subject.

[jolantru]

Yeah, I remember the files. My students carry about two, minimum. :P

[delfinnium]

I'd carry one. :D

Because I was a lazy-fucker and tried to bring as little to school as possible.

And tried not to even buy the TYS if I could help it.