I'm old fashioned, but I just finished grad school a little over a year ago and I never would have got the electronic version of my texts. And from what I saw, none of the younger students did, either. I had tons of journal articles to read (like about 300 pages a week for the first year) and I bought a laser printer, specifically to print them out, so I could mark them up and make notes on the paper. Yeah, I'm a tree killer, but when I had to do an APA style reference list for my research papers, the only way I could organize the articles was to physically lay them out in the right order. I guess that marks me as old! I could not read heavy duty psychological research on a screen, any screen. Just give me a yellow high ligher, please. My texts were not as expensive as engineering texts, I bought them at discount and I was fine.
I recently began reading fiction on a Kindle and it just doesn't feel the same as turning the paper pages. Am I weird? I only read the newspaper on the I Pad if it's raining and I don't want to walk down my long hilly driveway to get the paper copy out of the box!