“…Regarding the motives for purchasing tablets, portability was one of the most frequently mentioned reasons, corresponding to the studies carried out by Fernandez and Mammen (2020), Hembrough and Jordan (2020), Haßler et al (2016), and Zhang and Nouri (2018. Meanwhile, considering the number of heavy manual and notebooks the students needed to carry, the light-weight nature of tablets can be a benefit for students' daily use which is convenient to carry and allows easy and rapid access to course materials, complementing the prior findings by Talbott et al (2009), Yalman and Basaran (2021), and Zhang and Nouri (2018). In addition, documentation features, such as e-reading and note-taking were also considered as the common reasons why the students chose to bring tablets to their learning, as Zhang and Nouri (2018) argued previously.…”