Ken Frazier, the director of libraries at the University of Wisconsin, recently did something that might seem odd in this era of tight school budgets.
He spent $10,000 in university funds to buy 20 Kindles from Amazon.com. He’s testing the electronic readers as a textbook replacement in a pair of undergraduate and graduate history seminars.
Students who received Kindles “immediately saw the convenience of packing all these books onto one device,” Frazier said. “They’re thrilled to be part of this experiment.”
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