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Gill & Macmillan Make First Move To E-book FormatPosted at 7:02AM Tuesday 09 Sep 2008 Irish book publisher, Gill & Macmillan has embarked on a pilot scheme that will take some weight off the shoulders of the first year pupils of Caritas College, Ballyfermot and bring them a step closer to the paperless age.St Brendan's class, a group of 18 first year students at the all-girl school will become the first class of students worldwide to replace their text books with the iLiad, an electronic book device. The main difference for the girls will be a dramatic reduction in the weight of their schoolbags as they replace more than six kilograms of textbooks, workbooks, an English dictionary and a novel with this 400grm e-book. The students can make notes and doodle on the pages, as in a regular textbook, and decide later if they wish to erase or save their notes. In addition, each iLiad reader is pre-loaded with 50 classic novels, which will be available free of charge to each student.
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