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MHS looks into ebooks
By Kim Fleming
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Kim Fleming, Website managing editor
Kim Fleming is a senior at Middletown High School and is currently in her sixth and final semester of journalism. She is extremely excited to be a part of Round Table during her last year of high school as she has always had an interest in writing and loves journalism. Outside of school, Kim competes her horse Willow in mounted games competitions, traveling all over the States and Europe riding in various world competitions. Most recently, she won the 2017 Nations Championship as a part of Team USA, competing against four other countries. After high school, Kim plans to pursue a career in multi-platform journalism studying at University of Maryland in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
Matthew Jefferson • Jan 18, 2016 at 10:19 pm
This is a great story to tell. I am glad MHS is making a move from physical hard-copies to eBooks. Back between 2007-2011, when I went to MHS, not a single iPad was seen anywhere in the building. And a majority of reading materials came from either paperback, hardcover, or through a website I used to access for government class back in the Fall of 2007 (msde.mdk12online.org). During my first 3 years of high school, the iPad never existed. And there was no such thing as iBooks at the time. The iPad and the iBooks app made their debuts in the Spring of 2010. After my 4 years of high school, I then went to FCC for four years. The reading materials I used for FCC courses were also either paperback, hardcover, or MySpanishLab or MyItLab. During piano lessons at FCC, the use of the iPad was acceptable. The instructor allowed me to use PDF files to open sheet music from IMSLP (public domain music). After graduating from FCC, I moved to Shepherd University to major in piano performance. During my first semester, I was told that the use of an iPad may not be necessary because annotating sheet music would be quicker to do on paper than on iPad. Paperback and hardcover books are still being used. However, some products happen to be available in eBook formats.
Yes, I strongly agree with the video provided in the post. Carrying too many books causes back soreness and irritation.
Tablets and smartphones are lighter and easier to carry. They also provide access to eBooks (depending the eBook one may desire to read).
Not to change the subject, but “The Journey to Cadenza” (which I recently published online) is only available as an eBook. No physical hardcopies (paperback/hardcover) are processed for this title.
Original Wattpad Release = 12/28/2015.
Special Edition Re-release (on iBooks, Kindle, Google Play, Kobo, etc) = 1/12/2016.