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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Okay, I know I'll get slammed for this.......but again, no. As a parent, I want a wall full of colorful books, not a color eink device. Its the texture, pictures, rifling thru the books which encourages the reading. Going thru a boxful of paper books is a different experience than going thru a few pages of an ebook reader, color or not.
Kids love to read together. Sharing a book is way easier than sharing an ebook reader, which is designed for one person.
Maybe I am a luddite in this particular area, but keep the ereaders for the older kids......junior high and up. Let the littler ones discover the joys of paper books.
With all the cuts in schools today, from salariess to classroom supplies, even 'reasonably priced' ebook readers would be a questionable purchase.
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How is your POV different from say, not teaching them read until age 12? No computers, nothing...kids are SPONGES and the sooner you introduce them to the technology (or any subject for that matter) the better their life will be...in fact we baby kids by not helping them learn more, sooner than we currently do. This can be born out that in most colleges professors complain that the first 1-2yrs for a significant number of those professors (and the students's) time is spent teaching them the tools they should have come to college already armed with...
Time to push them not hold them back even more...and to hire smarter teachers...but that is a much different topic.