Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by spikeagally 1278 days ago
I don’t have any data to back it up but I doubt that. Schools are still mostly using paper text books. And I reckon school libraries are still the main source of books for kids (who typically don’t have money to buy books). Family members who want to buy you a book as a gift, will do that on paper as gifting ebooks is trickier and less personal.

To be honest, I would bet that the if younger demographics are reading less paper books it’s because they’re reading less generally rather than switching to digital.

1 comments

College students here are almost all using PDFs on their laptops.

Especially engineering.

Tried conducting an open book test this year and was met with consternation. Had to go with an open laptop test instead.