Just this morning, I saw in the news about Apple's launch of iBooks 2.
This app is available to iOS devices and will allow users to read
textbooks interactively. The part that awed me the most is the visual
aids found in the e-books. The pictures and diagrams could be brought to
life just by tapping on them. Dragging a picture allows users to see
the different angles of the object. Readers could gain much more
understanding with the subject matter through the embedded videos laid
across the e-books. These are the features I find to be lacking in our
traditional textbooks. 2D diagrams aren't enough to illustrate a concept
as abstract as those in chemistry. (
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