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Originally Posted by CountryGirl
Don't apologize, I should have included that info in my original post. We are wanting this for kids in the 8-10 year old range. Not looking for picture books, but chapter books and novels. My oldest likes older authors like G.A. Henty, Ballantyne, Twain, Jack London, etc. My younger is more into easier chapter books like Boxcar Children, Matt Christopher books, etc. I'm thinking we can probably find quite a few books for my older son that are free or inexpensive but that books for my younger son will be harder to find and we will probably need to pay more for those. We also have a younger daughter (5) who won't be getting an e-reader but that we might like to get some books for her from time to time (I'm guessing Amazon would probably be best for this, right?).
Thanks!
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I think that eReaders are not suitable for kids from 8 to 10 in my opinion.
1- Electronic devices are easily broken if not handled carefully.
2- Most of the eReaders require hands dexterity, tiny buttons, rubber pads.
3- Ereaders can contain a lot of titles in the same time, even adults find themselves jumping from one novel to another without even completing one.
4- Ereaders require the ability of reading English in order to perform simple task like browsing navigation from menus
5- Ereaders also require knowledge to resolve bugs, to store ebooks make notation ect
6- they tend to freeze, even adults will past their entire days calling customer services
7- they are expensive, you will have to pay at least 1000 dollars for your kids.
8- Your kids will have territorial fights between them, you cannot duplicate the ebooks, you have to buy the same ebooks 7 times or you face some domestic dispute .
Because you seem to be a rich person
I recommend you to hire an employee who can oversee all those gadgets at your home and can pass his month calling customer services and fixing bugs.
Kids like to run to jump , let them have fun and take maximum benefit of their childhood.