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Who
wants to carry a bulky bag to school? No children. Nobody wants one
shoulder to be lower than the other. In India, most people consider the reduction(减少) of textbooks as a way out. But in a country like America, there
are always more choices. A company called go Reader has created a "schoolbag"
which is the size of laptop, weighing about 2.5 kg. "the go Reader has a
colour screen and can 'hold' all the textbooks that a student may need, "says
a report in the Asian Age.
The
company plans to work closely with the publishers (出版商) of textbooks so that these books can be supplied on the Internet.
All the students will have to do is download(下载) their textbooks.
Making notes and marking important parts of a lesson can be done just as lots
of students have done on their textbooks before.
At
present, the plan is being tested out in a university. Richard Katz Mann, the
owner of the company is having his creation tested at Chicago's DePaul
University, where he studied. Does that mean it is an end to the new paper, and
the smell of the black ink?
