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[rtrunck]

I would have been more inclined to agree until the Kindle Fire came out. That is starting to change things.

[dangson → rtrunck]

I don't have a Kindle Fire, but I imagine it isn't very useful for textbooks. Thinking back to my school days, textbooks were huge and closer to the size of an iPad than to a Fire. The Fire's screen is great for blocks of text, but it's way too small to clearly display charts and tables.

[ChrisLTD → dangson]

In landscape mode it should be able to fit a decent sized chart or table on screen.

[ceejayoz → ChrisLTD]

Next to the relevant text section, as with a paper textbook?

[ChrisLTD → ceejayoz]

No, but that would be tough on the current iPad as well, given the relatively low resolution compared to printed books.

[ceejayoz → ChrisLTD]

I really don't think a chart/video next to some explanatory text would tax an iPad screen. News websites often use a similar layout and work fine.