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Well, I think readers will have to come along bit before they'll really entrance kids. I remember the original black and white IBM PC without graphics did not have enough visual interest for my two year old. But when they went color with graphics a year later or two later he enjoyed 'reader rabbit' and other educational programs.
Content on the reader must become better and more accessible for kids. My son would read something if it taught him to make something or do something. That might require video and sound. Unfortunately, that moves us away from readers and closer to book sized computers - I would call them 'N-o-t-e-b-o-o-k' computers and they could sit in your lap when you used them.
I don't mean to be sarcastic. What I'm saying is that I don't think a reader is for everyone unless it crosses the boundary... but then is it still a reader, or is it a 'Notepad' computer?
That's where I think it will go. I'm not terribly happy about it.
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