As students at universities across the country begin to test Amazon.com's Kindle DX reader as a textbook replacement, the device has met with some grumbling at Princeton. Many of the 50 Princeton students who received the readers as part of a pilot project say they are "dissatisfied and uncomfortable" with the devices, according to a report in The Daily Princetonian. The sour reaction from Princeton, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' alma mater, shows the ecommerce giant still has some work to do to get academia on board.

Here's a sample quote from a Princeton student:

“I hate to sound like a Luddite, but this technology is a poor excuse of an academic tool,” said Aaron Horvath ’10, a student in Civil Society and Public Policy. “It’s clunky, slow and a real pain to operate.”

He went on:

“Much of my learning comes from a physical interaction with the text: bookmarks, highlights, page-tearing, sticky notes and other marks representing the importance of certain passages — not to mention margin notes, where most of my paper ideas come from and interaction with the material occurs,” he explained. “All these things have been lost, and if not lost they’re too slow to keep up with my thinking, and the ‘features’ have been rendered useless.”

A group of computer science grad students at the University of Washington are just getting their Kindle DXs as part of a pilot there. We'll be checking in with them regularly to find out if they have similiar concerns.

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