Online textbooks moving into Washington area schools

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Seventh-grade history teacher Mark Stevens bellowed a set of 21st-century instructions as students streamed into class one recent Friday at Fairfax County's Glasgow Middle School.

"Get a computer, please! Log on," he said, "and go to your textbook."

Electronic books, having changed the way many people read for pleasure, are now seeping into schools. Starting this fall, almost all Fairfax middle and high school students began using online books in social studies, jettisoning the tomes that have weighed down backpacks for decades.

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Amy Gardner 03 Oct, 2011

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