I can only dream that in just 10 years, youngsters will not remember the dark era of rooms overcrowded by books, the sad era before Golden Shellback waterproof TechCrunch Web Tablet... - Jura Stanaityte

It's starting to sound like bad science fiction, isn't it? :) - Bill Sodeman

these people are as bad as RIAA.. the revolution is now, if you don't adjust, you'll be left behind. There is no reason to have to carry around 5 or so huge textbooks, when many students already have laptops, or eReaders for that matter. - Tim Hoeck from NoiseRiver

Tim, you'll get no arguments from me. Distributed scanning models have made textbook torrents practical for years. The book publishers can't change their models without some serious pain. it's a lot like the CD-MP3 conversion in the 90s. - Bill Sodeman