Textbooks are Hefty

The article from 2cents worth was about how textbooks are becoming a hassle in today's technologicaly advanced world. The one way that David Warlick solve this problem is to make textbooks smaller.
This article was not very long and did not go into much detail but I think that the problem of textbooks being to big is very relevant to the way kids are so into technology. Most all technology that we use on a daily bases is hand held. Kids do not like carrying around a 12 pound textbook in their backpacks all day. The article only had one answer to this problem but I think that there are many. One has already being put on the market and that is CD Rom books and online books. These two things are very useful and nice because we love to use technology and they are technology. Still I think that it is nice to have a book that you can carry around to use whenever you need. Thats why I like David Warlick's idea of have small textbooks. They would be lighter and take up less space in lockers and backpacks.
I belive that if text book companys want to keep producing and making money they are going to have to make some changes to their books. By making them smaller of lighter in someway. People may worry about being able to read the books when they are small but we can read the text message that we just recieved and our phones are usually no bigger then our hand. So it would be nice if something was done about those mean and heavy textbooks. My final vote though is to just get rid of them completely.