Barnes &amp; Noble's NOOKstudy coming to students in August

Barnes & Noble is diving deeper into the education market with an expected August release of NOOKstudy which will run on Macs and PCs and not require a NOOK or any other mobile device. NOOKstudy will act as a hub for eTextbook, class notes, syllabi, scanned handouts, and even non-educational eBooks. It will allow students to take notes as well as highlight passages in eTextbooks. Users will also be able to tag items for easy retrieval using common terms like: "for the final exam". It will provide full searches of anything, in the eTextbooks or your notes, and link into Google or Dictionary.com to look up terms.

Multiple eTextbooks can be opened at the same time, or two pages from different sources can be simultaneously displayed.

The program is currently being piloted at Penn State, University of Nevada, Queensborough Community College, and the Rochester Institute of Technology.

[via Campus Technology]

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uzerzero

I thought the NOOKstudy was the pictured laptop at my first glance of the title. I had to read the article twice to crush my hopes.

As for the idea of e-textbooks... I just can't do it. I'm sure they'll be commonplace soon enough, but 20 pound textbooks have become too engrained for me to switch to e-textbooks without losing significant amounts of efficiency.

July 22 2010 at 11:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tyler

I wish that laptop was real. Dang.

July 22 2010 at 5:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jason

I would absolutely LOVE to have this on the iPad, and I can't imagine why that can't happen. I'm trying to get away from carrying a laptop in favor of getting everything on my iPad. (iOS 4 on iPad will help a LOT in that regard.) I would love nothing more than to prepare and teach class with nothing more than my iPad. It would make a day on campus so much more freeing.

July 22 2010 at 1:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

1comment

Have you looked at the Kno? http://kno.com/

July 22 2010 at 1:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

studio

WOW! This is great! The iPad has to get it! Boy, these are the best of times for technology, it is just AMAZING! Apple should start iSchool. LOL

July 22 2010 at 11:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Trevor

Sorry but I just couldn't do a textbook on my computer. Maybe iPad or large ereader w/highly improved GUI. I think most people couldn't learn well just from that. Thoughts, opinions?

July 22 2010 at 11:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bryan

Any idea what kind of portable computer that is in the pic? Yeah, it's Windows based, but it looks like a nice form factor and screen.

July 22 2010 at 9:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Dan Lynch

This sounds like it could be really cool, I hope they make a companion iPad app...

July 22 2010 at 9:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply