E books

Today I read about electronic textbooks. That is about how they are not fast becoming the new way for students to use school textbooks. I find that interesting because some schools in the U.S. and elsewhere have started experimenting with E books, and "experts" say it is only a matter of time that they replace the traditional paper text.
What makes students shun the? Well, they say they can't "highlight" mark the text, can't curl up at home with their books and finding reading a long textbook for hours on line less comfortable than reading a traditional paper text. It seems that despite the fact that kids today have grown up with electronic communication, they are very conservative when it comes to school and grades. They don't want to do anything different that might jeopardize their success in school.
So despite the fact that digital books do have advantages, the demand for them is low, still a small percentage of the total number of books sold by textbook publishers. I think that because people have settled on the traditional way of studying and learning from paper based texts, there must be greater innovation in the electronic versions if they are to become more popular and widely used. Or schools must simply make kids use them (they are supposedly about 25% cheaper to purchase than paper books).
This is one rare example when technological improvement is not readily adapted and used. In the U.S. any person convicted of a sex crime against another person is likely to wind up listed as a "sex offender" on one of the state registries set up as information site. That seems straightforward enough. But not in Michigan.
If you asked Jeffrey Hayes, 42, of Battle Creek, Michigan he might dispute the fairness of those sex offender lists. You see, Jeffrey didn't violate another person. Instead, he was pleaded no contest to a sodomy charge involving a sheep. Now Jeffrey says "bah" to the fact that Michigan has him listed as a sex offender and is requiring him to inform those he comes into contact with. But wait! Sheep can't read sex offender lists? Does it serve a purpose to list a sheep sex offender? Jeffrey has been sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison, pretty harsh for sheep sex, but the prosecutor who was assigned to Jeffrey's case says that once out of prison he might switch his sex predator practices from sheep to kids or vulnerable adults. But Jeffrey insists that he has never committed a sex offense with a human and is not and should not be treated as a sex offender of humans.
Hmmmmmmm I think I agree with Jeffrey. The courts might do better to not anticipate he will switch to human sex, but to ban Jeffrey from Michigan farms, the venue where he seems much more likely to stray.