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Originally Posted by ficbot
Good point about the stylus issue. My more pressing concern would be letting them go at a touchscreen at all. Given that they are taught at this age to point as they read, I am just picturing them accidentally turning pages and exiting the book every time they touch a word, and I don't think that is a problem ebook manufacturers thought of when designing these sorts of products. If we ever do get to a point where the tech is cheap enough and the books available enough that someone wants to market a reader specifically for kids, the touching issue will have to be addressed. Either you don't have a touchscreen and you have a tool they can use to point with, or you do have a touchscreen but you are able to lock it somehow so they can do some things by touching (e.g. have a word read to them?) but not have to worry about them turning the pages by mistake...
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in 5 years or more in specialty schools, 10-20 in public schools, I can see super rugged versions perhaps being used for kids.
currently the tech is too fragile but I think it would get better in time, but, wireless capability is a must, that way teachers can download passages directly to the students "PDA" and perhaps they can do homework on them too if they have a touch screen. but ebook readers are the closest thing to the Epaper that I was told I would get by the time I was in high school when I was a kid, everyone wanted it. but the closest thing to it currently is no where near what was promised.