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"In a big leap into a new but adjacent market, Silicon Valley digital education start-up Kno said entering the K-12 space, expanding from its college-only focus."

"How do you make a digital textbook more than just a glorified PDF on a tablet? Kno, the tablet textbook company started by Chegg co-founder Osman Rashid, is rolling out a variety of features to try to bring textbooks to life, including Facebook integration, automated quizes, an activity stream of notes. But an update to its iPad app today points to how digital textbooks can create entirely new experiences out of static notations. In the vido above, Rashid shows me Kno's 3D modeling feature."

" It includes its own store of "over 70,000 titles at 30% to 50% off list" price. And the app is a full textbook reader."

"You spend, like, half of your life on that thing. Time to figure out what it really does."