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Originally Posted by crich70
I'm much the same way. I often have several books on my Kindle that I switch between depending on my whim of the moment. i.e sci fi or mystery or whatever. And such is a lot more convenient when you have an ereader. With a paper book you are locked into whatever book you have with you at the time.
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Agree. It's just nice to have all my books available at my finger tips so I can read whatever I'm in the mood for. When I went on vacation, I use to pack 10 or more paperbacks. I don't have to do that any more.
I will say that I rarely see kids reading on dedicated ebook readers. I see a lot of paper books, and I see a lot of kids on tablets. I teach kids karate, so I've seen a lot of kids of the years.
To a certain extent, I think that as long as kids are taught to write on paper and use spiral notebooks, kids will be more comfortable reading paper. It's really only once they start using computers to do their homework that they start moving towards reading online, then to reading ebooks.
Now that my niece and nephew are in high school, it seems that they are mostly using computers (chrome books that were loaded by their high school) and everything is online. I don't think they have paper text books anymore. This is something that has just happened over the last couple of years for them. They are in a private school. I think the public schools are mostly all paper still.