I'm frustrated with my textbooks. It's my senior year, and every book features tiny black and white text with hardly any pictures, charts, or graphics. It's an ugly little mess, one that tests my patience for reading. Honestly, it's like at this stage in the game, all the textbook writers become humorless bastards.
Personally, I never much liked textbooks. I much prefer reading actual, original works by significant people and comparing them in class, instead of having someone else interpret everything and summarize it all in a single book.
Given that we have computers now, and even better than that, cheap eBook reading technology with high-contrast, high-resolution screens and long battery life, you'd think things would be different.
I mean, imagine if we had large libraries of media, especially books, freely available to instructors to selectively use and build on, with collaborative databases of course materials, all freely available and easily copied/distributed...
In fact, that's my dream project for the future.
