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There's a big difference between children's picture books and college textbooks, though. College texts are clunky, overpriced behemoths that are discard year after year for superflous installments. Owning a book in hardcopy becomes worthless if the student is unable to annotate in it and treat it as his or her own because they plan on reselling it afterwards to get some money back.

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It's worse in law school. > Some of the books are enormous A lot of people I know get their books cut into smaller pieces and rebound because the books are so heavy. > Annotating the books is a necessity for many people because there is a lot of difficult reading and you need to find ways to focus on the important bits.

I, for one, would welcome the digitization of as many law schools books as possible.

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