Thread: Aid organization provides African schools with Kindles and ebooks
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Old 10-24-2011, 11:08 AM   #9
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors View Post
That's friggin' awesome. Yes.

The Kindles look to come with a shell case of some kind, with an extra padded layer on one side that the screen would be cushioned by. I'm sure there will be screen casualties eventually, but I don't think it'll be an enormous issue.

1. These kids have *nothing.* Having an ereader is like being given a box of gold. I bet they treat it a lot better than Western kids do.

2. Even with the occasional broken screen, it's probably still cheaper and has a broader reach to more kids than a physical library would.
All of this is true. And the cost of shipping paper books to an isolated village in the middle of Congo is a *lot* higher than the cost of shipping paperbooks to my local B&N.
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