Textbooks?

I was reading an article about how Richard Feynman, famous physicist and bongo drum player, where he explained why textbooks were so awful. He had been on a committee to help select textbooks for a state, and discovered many of his colleagues barely read the books and made decisions that had little to do with the quality of the books.

I suspect we still have textbooks, but it feels like we should be able to use the Internet, and use virtual books. For one, it should cost a lot less. You don't have to make physical books. You have virtual ones instead. To be fair, web pages typically make lousy books, because far less care is taken, and because most web pages weren't designed to be high quality. HTML doesn't give you high precision for laying out content. It merely describes content.

Is there a reason why we should use textbooks, at least, in pre-college? I wonder.