Tablets strong contender for etextbooks platform

The iPad really kicked the tablet (as opposed to "tablet laptop") into the mainstream as a highly portable, eminently usable, and very capable device for "consuming media"--including text. With its decent screen size, good color and resolution, and ability to easily handle ebook-embedded sound and video, the modern tablet has finally brought us that thin slate we saw everyone using on the Starship Enterprise instead of books, paper pads, pamphlets, clipboards, etc. So it's no wonder it's getting a lot of attention as a major contender for the ideal platform for etextbooks.

I'm not the only one who thinks so.  Take a look at 6 Reasons Tablets Are Ready for the Classroom on Mashable.  And thanks to Tom Kaun who revealed it to me.