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Originally Posted by mldavis2
Screen size is too small. I find the default text size on my K3 just right. Text on the little hand-held devices gets too small for these old eyes. If you increase text size (which I may well have to do some day), it makes reading slower and more difficult with shorter text lines and more frequent page turns. Just a personal opinion from my own experience.  |
Ah. Understandable.
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Originally Posted by queentess
I don't think a run-of-the-mill fiction ebook is necessarily appropriate for a kid. I would have never just picked up a giant book in the library, why would I expect my child to do on an ereader just because that's how I read? When my daughter's ready to read short, all text books (maybe around 2nd or 3rd grade? Judy Blume and all that?), then I'll see if she wants to read on a device. If they're cheap enough and I can trust her not to destroy it.
The "we're the last generation of readers" is a load of BS. I'm sure my parents were saying the same thing about how video games and tv were mindless and rotting my brain, but here I am. I go after all forms of entertainment, including (and especially) reading.
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I agree with you. My children are elementary age and have asked to use my Kindle (more for the novelty of it, than anything else). They understood that even the children's books I have (fairy tales and what not) were not illustrated, but that didn't really bother them. It was clear, however, that they are not quite ready to give up paper books altogether.
As for the "last generation of readers": I think that if libraries can keep their heads above water, then book stores will follow suit. Many of the children I see at the school library just needed a guiding hand in order to get comfortable. Now, they come in on their own, asking for the books their friends have read, or for the books the Media Specialist read to them the week before. She makes a point of picking authors with series, or multiple titles, in order to give the kids a jump start. Home participation allowing, those same children have begum or will begin to request books for their very own.
My best friend saw her middle school daughter reading a book that she (my friend) read at that age. She was very happy, becuase her daughter spent more time in front of the computer than in front of a book (for leisure, anyway). To encourage the daughter more, I gave her a Barnes & Noble gift card for her birthday.
It is up to the parents, friends of the parents, family members and educators to help and encourage the next generation of readers.