School chooses Kindle; are libraries for the history 'books'?

A Kindle reader loaded with Augusten Burrough's Running With Scissors sits in front of stacks of the few remaining books in the Cushing Academy school library. Teacher Nancy Boyle gives students, from left, Grace Centauro, Salma Makkar, Jennifer Tonti and Caroline Stanclift, a tutorial on the Kindle, which will replace many of the books used in their honors sophomore English class. Headmaster James Tracy, whose critics have called him anti-book or anti-intellectual, says he doesn't quite understand the furor. ASHBURNHAM, Mass. — Cushing Academy is the very model of a modern New England boarding school. Clock tower? Check. Maples and meandering footpaths? Check. Flags representing the 193 home countries of its alumni? Check. But in the past few years, the old library was in danger of becoming a relic. Its 20,000-book... [read full story]                    

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