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The ongoing adaptation of art which "used" to include books and now will have ebook devices. Perhaps not classic art, but changing a magazine ad from the early 1920s to include ebooks as gifts. This picture didn't actually have books in it, but the packages that were on the chair reminded me of the boxes my ebooks came in.  And of course not only people interact with books, pets to too. Frank Paton's 1880 painting Tearaway with an iPad showing a textbook.  John Henry Dolph's 1881 painting The Scholar on a Kobo

The ongoing adaptation of art which "used" to include books and now will have ebook devices. Amelia Jan Murray's Faries on a Book (1820s), now on a Kindle Oasis Ludwig Deutsch's The Scholars (1901) now with an iPad  Henry Lewis Stephens' untitled (1863) of a man reading a newspaper, now reading a Kindle Fire.

You go to school, you have classes and in those classes you will have others students, a teacher and and a textbook. That textbook, will usually selected by the school district for you use use (usually from a big publishing house), and will usually be a big book weighing quite a few pounds. That is the classic thought about textbooks, although they don't have to be like that.  don't have to be limited to a course, although if you are a teacher reading this you might now be thinking of building your own etextbook. A textbook , as defined by Google, is "a book used as a standard work for the study of a particular subject" (google 2013) and from that people usually think school. You can expand that definition to read that a textbook is that it is a book that you use to learn facts, strategies, and methods about a topic. So while you might create your own text book for a class,  think about how a repair guide or manual is actually a form of textbook to learn about a car, ...

The ongoing adaptation of art which "used" to include book and now will have ebook readers. Pierre Auguste Renoir's  Breakfast at Berneval reading iBooks with an iPad Wall painting from.Pompeii - Portrait of Menander  (c. 70 CE) reading from a Kindle Fire 

Konstantin Somov -  Lady in Blue (1900) with a Kobo Touch Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin - The Young Schoolmistress (1740) with a Kindle Fire