May 18, 2001

A University That Reveres Tradition Experiments With E-Books

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Textbook pages never rustle during a University of Virginia seminar about the Salem witch trials, because printed books have been replaced by electronic ones.

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Students in the experimental course were lent hand-held computers loaded with several assigned textbooks, as