[fifilura]

Buying a book made of trees is very often much more expensive than reading on a screen. Worldreader provides books for free for schools in Africa where they only need to pay for a $40 phone once instead of spending money on books.

https://www.worldreader.org/

[rsolva]

Laptops and tables are, as it turns out, not so cheap either. They need to be fixed or replaced at an alarming rate, and they lay claim to a much larger part of a school budget than books ever did. That is part of the reason that we revert back to pen, paper and books in Norway. First for 1-4 grade, but it will be push further up the grades as we go, I think.

[fifilura]

Yeah this is for extremely poor schools where children share one phone between them. But compared to buying books for every subject that very soon wear out and become obsolete, this has basically no cost.