Kindles in place of schoolbooks? Forget it. Discriminates against the blind.

In this over-litigated age of political correctness is seems that you can't even turn around without bumping into someone claiming discrimination. That's what happened when several colleges experimented with the Kindle in place of text books.

The problem, you see, is that a blind person can't use them. Even though the Kindle might have a feature that reads the words aloud, it takes sight to navigate the menu.

So the National Federation of the Blind filed a complaint with the Justice Department, and the Civil Rights Division went to work. The resulting settlement put books back into students' backpacks.

Read about it at the WashingtonExaminer.com in Why did feds claim Kindle violates civil rights?

Via Carpe Diem.