Hello! I don't have a Kindle myself (though I'm sure I won't be Kindleless forever), but both of my teenagers do. My daughter was given a Kindle Touch for Christmas a couple of years ago, and my son just won a Kindle Fire HD in a library summer reading program.
This was especially exciting, because my son is mildly dyslexic. But over the past year, his reading skills have really improved. He has gone from reading little books and hating it, to voluntarily slogging through 400-page books. Not quickly, mind you, but I'm not really concerned about speed at this point. Thankfully, the drawing for the Kindle was based not on number of books read, but number of minutes. He dutifully logged his minutes, recording nearly 1,500 by the end of the program. They were logged online, and they had to review the books they read, too. They got 1 ticket for every 30 minutes read, to a maximum of 2,000 minutes worth of tickets.
Anyway, you can probably tell I'm really proud of him. He worked his tail off trying for that Kindle, but he was a good sport about it. He was hoping that if he didn't get it, that it would go to another kid who had read a whole lot, rather than to a kid who had only one or two tickets in there.
My daughter has been inseparable from her books since she was little. She reads like I did at her age... before I got married and had children.
When her aunt and uncle gave her a Kindle two years ago, I thought she was going to burst when she found out it could hold 3,000 books! She still carries it everywhere she goes. And it doesn't matter that there's plenty of room on there for books to languish that she didn't like... she keeps it clean. Any book she didn't like (she's very discriminating) gets removed, so it doesn't soil her Kindle's storage space.
I want a Kindle.
