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I've noticed that a lot - but it does make sense, to me, as I've also noticed that in general, the people who most prefer paper books to ebooks are often people who have relatively few books (no space issues and not even any realisation yet that space may become an issue - or the lucky few with large houses and space for personal libraries!) and who have no physical issues with either holding books or reading them in whatever font, margins and line spacing they come in.
They also tend to be people who haven't had to move to a new home with more than a couple of boxes of books (or if they have, they haven't been personally responsible for doing it).
Very young people fit right into both of those categories.
Also, and I think this is related to the no lack-of-space issues, when someone is a relatively new reader, who doesn't have a large personal library yet, the idea of owning books, having a shelf or two as physical items to display and admire, is much more important than when you already have shelf upon shelf at home, taking up all the space you'd need for other things...
I'm quite sure this isn't the only reason - or one that many of those young readers would even give - but I interact with rather a lot of 15-20-year-olds in book fandoms on daily basis, and for many of those kids, reading for fun is something they really only discovered a few years ago, and books-as-physical-objects is still a major, new, shiny, wonderful thing for them.
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