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anecdata here, worth absolutely nothing, I'm sure.
My son has neurological deficits, and has always resisted reading. When the cheap kindle4s came out, I got him one as a Christmas gift, just to see if it would make a difference. He has already read more this year than he had the past two years combined. He did very little reading for pleasure before the K4, and now he's doing a fair bit. He's gone through all the Hunger Games books, some of the Song of Ice and Fire books, and is now working his way through the Belgariad - he's also read some other books, I'm sure, but I don't keep track of his reading, only what he asks me to put on his k4 (I manage the Calibre library) and what he mentions in FB.
If I get a job in the near future,there will probably be tablets in my kids' future - I'm thinking of the Nexus 7, but rumors of the MS Surface also sound good. We'll see then what happens to his reading level.
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