Apple has recently released a new version of iBooks that will allow elementary and high school students to view textbooks on their iPads. Score! Now my bag will be as light as a feather, filled with note books and lunch.
The new app allows students to buy textbooks for around $15 and have many different subjects, from Algebra to Zodiac reading (just joking, you don't learn that till you become, THE CHOSEN ONE).
The only problem is that iPads are expensive, especially for a student to own for themselves. I, for one, have no chance in getting one since saving for the future is the only message imprinted into my parents. As well as that, the legibility of the textbooks on other cheaper software's like Kindle, aren't as clear as pulling up a good ole' paper bound version.
Teachers have also gone against the idea of the iPad being used in school, as it displays unequal rights of the students. It wouldn't be fair to be poor and owning a normal textbook while the rich kid next to you is secretly playing Angry Birds and totally owning your high scores.
So really, this new update was pretty useless. If you add it up, having the digital textbooks and the iPad is more expensive than dropping down to the local bookstore and buying the "Drawing A Face 101" in paper.
