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A: So what do you think about switching over to electronic textbooks in the classroom?

你认为在课堂上使用电子书怎么样?

B: That's a really good question, it's one I've been debating myself for quite some time. I think, I'm mostly for it because I think the textbooks tend to be quite heavy to carry around, students carry a lot, have to carry a lot of them around. And having it in a digital form is much easier for students to access, it's very convenient. They can carry most of their textbooks in one kind of tablet or one on their phones and access it anywhere. And it's easily ... obviously easily transportable but also easily accessible wherever you are really. I think it's also with technology improving, you can change the format of the reading that you're doing in the textbook and the font sizes change and you can highlight and change text if you need to. I've also started using it myself and I think it's become much easier taking notes, I just open up a document next to it and add notes as I read. Yeah, I'm mostly for it. What about you?

这是个非常好的问题，很长时间以来我一直在考虑这件事。基本上来说，我赞成使用电子书，因为我认为纸制的书本太重了，不便利携带，学生们经常要带很多书。而使用电子书则更方便学生使用，这样非常便利。他们可以把大部分教材放在平板电脑里或是手机里，这样他们在任何地方都可以使用。显然，这样更便于携带，同时无论你在哪里，都可以使用。我认为，随着科技的发展，你可以改变阅读课本的形式，你可以改变字体大小，可以做标记，如果有需要还可以改变文本。我已经开始使用电子书了，我认为这使记笔记更加容易，我只要打开一个文件，然后在旁边加笔记就可以了。我支持电子书。你呢?

A: I see the advantages for it as well but I also see many disadvantages. First disadvantage I see is, students if it's on an electronic device they'll be more tempted to do other things other than what they're supposed to be doing with their textbook. As well is I see as a problem for writing in the book as far as notes. Although you can write notes in there, it's hard to reference back to them or hard to reference back certain pages, because I myself have used electronic textbook in the past and found that for regular books as far as reading, it's great but textbooks it's very difficult in the class if some people have regular textbooks and some people have electronic textbooks, trying to figure out what page everyone is on because if you have different text sizes then perhaps it'll be a different page numbers and it just makes it more difficult for trying to all be on the same page.

我知道电子书的优点，不过我也看到了电子书的缺点。首先，如果使用电子设备，那学生就更可能被诱惑去做其他的事情，而不是学习教材。另外，我认为做笔记也是个问题。虽然电子书也可以做标记，但是很难回到之前的标记或者说很难回到特定的页数，我以前用过电子教材，但是我发现就一般的书来说，用电子书的方式阅读非常棒，可是就教材来说，在课堂上用很麻烦，如果有学生用纸制教材，有学生用电子书，那很难确定每个人的页数，因为如果文本大小不一样，那页数也可能不一样，所以很难让所有学生看相同的页数。

B: Yeah, I can kind of see your point. Although, what I do like about the electronic textbook so that they've got a lot of interactive material that you can directly link to the text that you're using like any animated materials, videos, other online material that you can access immediately whereas if you have a book you don't have that more interactive component. And as a teacher I think it's easier for me to add anything as the lesson goes on or as the course proceeds to just add more things to it, whereas with a textbook you're kind of more bound I guess, you have to stick to the text and the online experience just opens up many more possibilities, I think. And it's all in the same medium so you know that I find really great.

我可以明白你的观点。不过，我喜欢电子书是因为上面有很多交互性材料，你可以直接链接到你使用的文本中，比如你可以加入动画材料、视频或其他你可以获得的网络材料，而传统书籍没有这种交互性功能。作为老师，我认为这使我在讲课时添加补充材料变得更加容易，可是传统的教材有更多限制，你只能讲教材上的内容，可是网络增加了更多可能性。而且这都包含在同一个介质中，所以我认为那非常棒。

A: Yeah, I would agree with you and I think that's the way the future is going, definitely for education is to go, they're calling it paperless, I think. I know many schools in the US. are going paperless where they're doing all electronic things in the classroom. They all have iPads so it's very interesting.

我同意你的观点，我认为这是教育未来的发展方向，他们称为无纸化。我知道美国有许多学校已经开始无纸化了，他们在课堂上使用电子工具。他们在课堂上用iPad，非常有意思。

B: Yeah, it is.

对，没错。