If the books are pdf format (which is the only electronic format I've seen for textbooks), it will not be fun reading them on a small-screen reader. Even if you can't get a reader to test, get a ...

If you’ve ever studied from a textbook, you know how incredibly bulky and heavy they can be. The best e-readers for textbooks are a compact and portable alternative, and enable you to bring your ...

Mark Bauerlein (“Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind,” The Chronicle Review, September 19) writes that when reading Web pages, students’ eyes jump “around chasing keywords, bullet points, visuals, and ...

Reading without a purpose leads to lesser comprehension and long-term memory. Many students who read this way find it difficult to participate in class discussions and do as well on their exams as ...

The two 5th grade volumes of McGraw-Hill’s Treasures reading series at first glance look remarkably similar. Both include, for instance, a nonfiction selection about a scientific mission to Antarctica ...

As a journalism major, most of my classes have consisted of reading new articles or analyses — shorter content and, every once in a while, a scholarly paper. So for about a year or two, I didn’t read ...

If I read every single page that my professors assigned to me, I'd be a wreck of a person. If I have 5 classes that require 70 pages of reading per week, that's 350 pages of material per week (or ...