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I wrote about kids and ebooks for Teleread in June. My biggest revelation (which I would not have thought of until I saw it in action) was a reminder of how tactile young readers are. They read with their fingers, pointing and touching the words---at best, a smudging problem on a non-touchscreen reader, and at worst a potentially huge usability issue in anything touchscreen-based. They thought the reader was fun, readily grasped the concept etc. but I do not see a reader designed for adults as being in any way practical for a child younger than pre-teen, unless they are advanced for their age and over the need to use their fingers as a cue when they read.
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