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Eh, I think there's room for all these things (books, apps, TV); it's just up to the parents to set limits on them. Kids using apps instead of reading books = bad, but kids using apps instead of watching TV = good (in my mind). Sure, the app market for kids (which is brand-new!) will grow a lot faster than the book market for kids, but that doesn't mean they will stop publishing new kids books.
>>One way to get kids reading early on is to turn on close captioning on your TV. <<
One of my sister's kids learned to read by using a video game (Animal Crossing). This game had a lot of text on screen, you had to read it or you wouldn't know what was going on in the game. He was *really* motivated to read that text.
On the other hand, I got my daughter those Leapfrog Tag books where you point at words and it reads them for you. She never played with it much, preferring *real* books even when she couldn't read them herself.
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