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an enabling technology for electronic paper displays that could potentially be used as a delivery mechanism for electronic text

"An Electronic Paper Display is a display that possesses a paper-like high-contrast appearance, ultra-low power consumption, and a thin light form. It gives the viewer the experience of reading from paper, while having the power of updatable information. EPDs are a technology enabled by electronic ink- ink that carries a charge enabling it to be updated through electronics

En California, el gobernador Arnold Scwarzenegger ha anunciado una iniciativa
para sustituir algunos libros de matemáticas y ciencias en los institutos por
versiones digitales gratuitas de fuente abierta. Con la difícil situación
financiera de California, el Gobernador espera que los libros de texto gratuitos
puedan hacer que se ahorren cientos de millones de dólares al año.

Cuando la gente supere sus barreras mentales se dará cuenta de que no hay por
qué pagar 100 dólares por cada libro de texto cuando puedes obtener gratis el
contenido deseado".

Young people “aren’t as troubled as some of us older folks are by reading that
doesn’t go in a line,” said Rand J. Spiro, a professor of educational psychology
at Michigan
State University who is studying reading practices on the Internet. “That’s
a good thing because the world doesn’t go in a line, and the world isn’t
organized into separate compartments or chapters.”

Some traditionalists warn that digital reading is the intellectual equivalent of
empty calories. Often, they argue, writers on the Internet employ a cryptic
argot that vexes teachers and parents. Zigzagging through a cornucopia of words,
pictures, video and sounds, they say, distracts more than strengthens readers.
And many youths spend most of their time on the Internet playing games or
sending instant messages, activities that involve minimal reading at best.