Wed 18 Nov 2009
Inside Higher Ed reports today that our university is boycotting institutional use of the Kindle.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is joining Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison in announcing that it will not make the Kindle available to students until the device has improvements to be better enable blind people to use it.
November 18th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Hear, hear — no pun intended!
The damned thing also restricts how many lines one can cut and extract from purchased books. That’s a barrier to research.
This UIP author supports this boycott!