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Every engineering degree you can do online is quite a huge step under the real college degrees. For instance, you can only get electronics engineering degrees online, not electrical engineering. The difference in pay is substantial. Fact is, for jobs like engineering, you are worthless if you've just read a bunch of books. You need LOTS and LOTS of hands on time in the lab, and that simply can't be done online.Just browsing the internet, I am already seeing degrees offered online that were not offered even 5 years ago. You can now get an engineering degree from USC, an MBA from Duke or UNC, all online. That trend will only continue.
I ran into that problem as well. The kindle e-ink is PERFECT for pictureless fiction. Reading textbooks and magazines on it is awful though. I got a kindle fire as well and both magazines and textbooks are absolutely fantastic. So each device is oriented towardsI love my kindle. But I can only do fiction. Non Fiction I have to highlight and write notes in the margin and keep for later referencing - and it's just not as friendly with kindle as it is with paper.