Toss the Traditional Textbook

I can definitely appreciate online educational sources from the aspect of how easy it would be to update the material in comparison to reprinting an entire new edition of a book for minute changes, not to mention the possibilities of world-wide knowledge sharing as the article suggested. That said, from a personal and probably selfish stand-point, I am not a big fan of online material. I took an online college algebra course a year ago, and I really felt hindered by not have the book physically there in front of me. I can't imagine I am the only person who feels this way, especially with abstract material like higher-level math and the sciences.