The other day, I asked Professor Schaberg whether or not he knew if the e-readers that Loyola would provide to the students in this upcoming class would be uniform (for example, kindles) or a smattering of a few different types (for example, kindles, nooks, iPads, samsungs). He said they would probably all be one type, but I'm not so sure I'm as keen on that as I am on a variety of different e-readers. He said I should post about it and here we are.

Personally, I think studying more than one type of e-reader would add a really interesting component to the course; we could form ideas by the different reactions to various e-readers and their unique (or similar, or the same) properties and what does or does not work-- what is and isn't intriguing as to our responses and hypotheses about them.
Having a sampling of many different e-readers could prompt less specialized, more interactive theories about the e-reader as an idea rather than a collective class hypothesis about one specific type of e-reader and the history and company and following behind it--simply the e-reader as a thing, the specific e-reader chosen, the item unto and about itself.
Again, this is just a suggestion/personal opinion and I realize that this may be completely outside the "point" of the course and it may be too much of a stretch to try to maneuver around in a classroom. I just figured it was worth putting out there.