Thread: Five-Year-old Versus Sony Reader (on Teleread)
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Old 05-30-2009, 07:05 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by mklynds View Post
My 5 year old uses a stylus on my DS all the time and I've never had any problem with him hitting to hard or getting confused. He plays brain age fairly successfully for a 5 year old. His brain age is 87. He can also type halfway decent so maybe he is a bit better at these things than a lot of 5 year olds.
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I think that won't happen too fast. Children do know exactly when something isn't up to lots of force. Remember, kids these days grow up with electronics and all the breakable stuff. I think you've more to worry about them dropping it (and a good casing helps in that case).
I don't think these would be good examples, either case involves devices that are inherently more durable. The DS really was designed to take a 'jabbing'. Current generation ebook devices are fairly fragile by comparison. Mostly due to the technologies. Current gen eInk is definitely rather fragile. Now, if VTech designed a reader with kids in mind with a LCD screen, I'd say sure...

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