No, a tablet is not a book of notepaper, and yes, students appear to be adopting them in a “crossing the chasm” type shift.  The Pearson Foundation’s second-annual survey asked 1,206 college students and 204 college-bound high-school seniors about tablet ownership. The results suggest students increasingly prefer to use the devices for reading, and that use has tripled in the past year. For the full story, visit The Chronicle of Higher Education.