On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:41:18 -0400, "Robert Green"
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"Moe DeLoughan" wrote in message news:kt8lbs$7e9$1@dont-

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students prefer e-books since they don't have to
actually visit a library to check them out, they can find the
information they're researching very quickly in the book using a
simple search command, and they don't need to lug around heavy
textbooks anymore.

Part of the benefit of old-fashioned text research is that you invariably
learned a lot just looking for something and skimming over lots of material
to find it. I find that though most people can find what they are looking
for on the net but they're not always good at evaluating the quality of that
material. It used to be people would quote Wikipedia and get dissed, but
Wikipedia looks downright scholarly compared to Yahoo Answers or
Answers.com.
The beauty of the internet is there is so much information
available.
The bad part is sorting truth from falsehood is like sorting fly****
from pepper.