May 8th, 2009

Fifty students of Pace University will receive Kindles DX digital book reader next autumn and other five universities that are trying out this gadget namely Case Western, Princeton, Reed College, Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and Arizona State University, will receive the same number.

So far, which classes and curricula that will be able to use Kindle DX are  not known yet, but one thing for sure that will make integrating the Kindle into academic environment a struggle is that besides the schools and students, the faculty members who assign reading for their classes will also have to enroll.

Moreover, for this initial test, there is no detail yet about the number of classes that will offer Kindle-compatible courses, but if there are three or four of those on the kindle, then this will be in a fairly good figure.

In conclusion, Kindle DX or any version of this digital book reader Amazon product, has a lot of potential for the college situation, and it is more reasonable than the idea that a Kindle is a newspaper-saver, though it will take a very long time to arrive at the era.