Bad news for Amazon, who’s hoping that in the future all college students will read their textbooks through the oversided Kindle DX : the first students to use it, at Princeton, are not fans. Students taking part in the pilot program have all sorts of complaints about the device, mostly centering around the fact that it’s a huge pain to take notes and “interact” with the text. Here’s what student Aaron Horvath has to say about it: “I hate to sound like a Luddite, but this technology is a poor excuse of an academic tool. It’s clunky, slow and a real pain to operate. 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

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Princeton Students in Kindle DX Pilot Program Sure Hate the Kindle DX [Kindle Dx]