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Apple’s plan to bring iPad textbooks to schools across America and around the world via iBooks 2 and iBooks Authoris nothing short of a revolution. It could mean the end of giant, overused dog-eared volumes jammed into bulging backpacks balanced atop the over-burdened backs of America’s youth.
It might also mean I’ll never have to explain to my daughter again where the rest of chapter 16 went.
A couple of months ago, my 13-year-old junior high-school-attending daughter was diligently plowing through piles of homework. Part of it involved reading a chapter in her Social Studies text book and then answering questions on a worksheet about what she read.
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