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    nutbastard: damn it. all my comments in this thread are stuck together. more »
    Deoki: In Portugal, every schoolkids are getting a "Magalhães" laptop (based on Classmate), but I'm still waiting to see results about this. Now we will hav... more »
    Electricity: no. more »
    MadMacs: One very important feature that makes this idea good is the weight of all the books that kids have to carry. I know when I went through school, we al... more »
    Angry Star: Textbooks are for sitting on and throwing at people. Nothing more. more »
    jetRink: I own a Kindle and love it, but I would never use it for textbooks. Kindles are for reading books from start to finish, one page at a time. Textbook... more »
    Skyman747: Since the kindle DX is required for Textbooks, at $489 why not just buy all kids a cheap netbook running linux? Has a hell of alot more features and u... more »
    jdale: On the other hand, there are components in the Kindle that are irrelevant for textbooks. For example, there's no need to have wireless downloading. (A... more »
    Stingers: I'm supporting this, if for no other reason than to get my hands on a Kindle for cheap. more »
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    Kindle For Every Schoolkid Proposed, We Strongly Recommend At Least 1 Calculator

    The "New" Democratic Leadership Council in Washington has proposed that the government buy a Kindle or other "eTextbook" for each of the 56 million K-12 schoolchildren in America. It's a nice sentiment, but as a plan, it's holey. More »