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Goodbye to heavy backpacks?: Hello, e-textbooks

Schools could save $250 per student each year by making the move to digital texts, according to the Federal Communications Commission, and the interactive e-books can be updated continuously instead of being replaced.

The next school icon to be tossed on the education bone heap may be the hardcover textbook. Slide rules and typewriters have long been extinct, and chalkboards have become an endangered species threatened by interactive whiteboards.

Someday soon, students might carry a single digital tablet instead of lugging around a backpack full of books.

By Celia Baker

Full Story: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865569352/Goodbye-to-heavy-backpacks-Hello-e-textbooks.html

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