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Originally Posted by j.p.s
As the price of readers comes down, more families can afford to give them to (reasonably responsible) children. The number of those must be comparable to the number of adult "serious readers". And there should be enough public domain reading material of interest to not have to worry about the cost of e-books for a while.
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I actually made this case a month or so ago at a homeschool meeting. We are out of bookcases again! Instead of hunting the library or used book sales, get a ereader, I recommended the 99$ Kobo, and download the free books. I am a guy who likes tech and the only guy in the group.
It took awhile for the idea to sink in as it was something most of the moms had never thought about. Once they realized that there are a LOT of public domain books the idea started taking hold. I also went over checking out books from the library, which is why I recommended the Kobo. Now they are seeing it as a very good alternative as they looked into it.
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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Nonsense. I'd rather see a child of mine playing something like Final Fantasy Tactics (it teaches math, strategy, and the fact that sometimes your opponent is a cheating...) than one of the eleventy-billion Twilight knock-offs that I strongly suspect were churned out by a novel-writing computer as opposed to an actual human being. . |
One of the best games EVER! Totally agree!
I thought it was supposed to be a room full of Monkeys not computers?
