eTextBooks (for kids)

[Arie Skliarouk]

Hi,

In socialistic USSR, school books were not bought each year. Instead pupils
had to take them from their's school library for the coming year and return
them at end of the year. Each book had "worn out" level marked on cover of
the book and one had to be careful not to wore out the book too much during
the year. As a penalty for lost or unusable book, the student had to buy a
new book for the library. To draw or mark text in the book was a big no-no.
All books had hard-cover and had strong binding for durability. Every
student was required to put the book he got into special plastic boundary.
If a course required pupils to draw on printed material (like letters in the
first form), the pupil had to buy addendum personal notebook he had to draw
in. I remember I used books with 15-20 name-year pairs in it.

Needless to say, all books were written by a department in the Ministry of
Education, and not private author benefited from the authorship.

After all there were some good economy tactics in the socialism that IMHO
should be applied to capitalism (albeit forcefully)...

--
Arie
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