The university later amended the course so that students would have an option not to read the book - although those who objected would have towrite a paper on why they chose not to.
Unlike with other pen-enabled tablets, where you might see air pockets in between the screen layers, this actually comes close to matching what it feels like towrite on paper.
And maybe there is only one thing as difficult as being an Egyptian censor before the revolution, or a secret policeman in any one of a dozen countries in the region now, and that is sitting in a foreign ministry in London or Washington or Paris and being asked towrite a paper for tomorrow morning, with the title What Happens Next?