Electronic Textbooks?

On Saturday Texas House gave preliminary authorization that allows schools to use their textbook allowance from the state to buy appropriate electronic materials.  When I first learned about this improvement of electronic textbooks I had mixed feelings about the issue.  Replacing textbooks with electronic books is a good idea but not everyone is ready for 21^st century technology.  I don’t believe this will benefit younger children in elementary school or even middle school because they are irresponsible and would possibly break the e-reader devices.  But even using computers to read the electronic textbooks would not be a great idea because it would cost a lot of money to provide every classroom with enough computers for a classroom full of children.  This could possibly benefit high school and college students because they are more responsible and could keep up with a personal e-reader device, especially college students who currently spend hundreds of dollars on books a semester anyways.  On the other hand this would be an unrealistic cost for parents of high school students in public school because these devices cost approximately $300 because not everybody would be fortune enough to provide this for their child.  I personally cannot read an abundance of text on the computer and need to print out to read it.  I am personally against this idea, I believe it’s a good idea but not everybody is completely ready for electronic textbooks and need to currently stick with the old ways by using an actual textbook.  This idea has dollar signs written all over it and would cost too much money at the moment, especially with the status of our current economy.