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Apple's IBooks 2 E-textbooks Pack Tons Of Info, Take Up Tons Of Your IPad's Memory
engadget.com 3 weeks, 3 days agoApple just got done unveiling its new iBooks 2 platform , letting us in on its plan to revamp education (in part) through its fancy new e-textbooks . These digital volumes look beautiful and come at a relatively meager monetary cost ($14.99), but a quick perusal of the textbooks available in iTunes reveals they'll take a sizable chunk of your iPad's memory. The current lineup of eight texts range in size from 800MB to 2.77GB, so folks looking to grab a full semester's worth of materials may have to carry an
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Apple Launches IBooks 2 E-Textbook Platform
engadget.com 3 weeks, 3 days agoWe're here at Apple's education-flavored event at the Guggenheim museum in New York City. Phil Schiller has just taken to the stage and announced the first half of Apple's platform that's going to "reinvent the textbook:" iBooks 2. Saying that there were 1.5 million iPads currently in use in Education (using 20,000 specific apps), the revamped book-stand now includes education-specific features to help the budding students of the world. You'll be able to paw through content, stopping to flick through detail
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