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Tablets are more likely to be lost or stolen than print textbooks.

According to research by the tech company Kensington, 70 million smartphones are lost each year, and every 53 seconds, a laptop is stolen. [79] In San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles, robberies related to internet-enabled handheld devices (including tablets) have accounted for 50, 40, and 25 percent respectively of all robberies in one year. Stolen and lost internet-enabled handheld devices have cost Americans more than $30 billion annually. [30]

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