Kindle DX is bad for study at the university: students acknowledge

College students are downgrading the usability of Amazon’s ereader device Kindle DX when it comes to consulting textbooks, reports The Seattle Times. Amazon conducted a trial and distributed Kindle DXs among students to learn their feedback. The study discovered that students are not reading textbooks as the ereader is actually meant for, instead they are using textbooks.

As such a traditional hard-copy textbook is found more usable for these purposes as it is much easier and more intuitive to thumb through, search, and scribble on than an ebook.

The survey shows that 80% of MBA students at the University of Viginia do not recommend Kindle DX as a study aid with 90% of them still saying they enjoy the device for pleasure. Thus, the students acknowledge the Amazonian ereader is a great thing for linear reading but not for study.