I just posted
this article to Teleread and thought it might interest people here---it's about using an ebook reader with small children. There were some things about the little experiment which surprised me and which I would not have thought of if I had not seen it in action myself. For example, they had no trouble grasping the concept of the reader, the benefits of it, its basic operation etc. But children this age tend to touch the words as they read, and I can see this being an issue if people want to use ebook readers with kids. Either they will smudge the heck out of your screen as they follow the words with their fingers, or worse, they'll keep turning the pages by accident---or exiting the book altogether---if the reader is touchscreen-based. Therefore I would be very cautious about using any sort of touchscreen with kids, and if I let them at my Sony again, I would bring a stylus with me so that they could point without smudging up my screen. Anyway, article
here.