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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.
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I think I'm with you on this one.
Ebook readers for when they're ready to just absorb content. Books, with pages, for learning the process of reading.
A lot of kids are tactile learners; they need to trace the letters with their fingers (or a pen), need to touch the words on the page to realize that the images connect to the story they're absorbing.
And all kids need the freedom to be, well, kids, with their possessions--need to have books be something they can drag around, bang against tables and toys, and tear their favorite page out to put it over their bed. They need to be free to scribble over the face of the scary villain, or draw hearts and stars around the happily-ever-after scene. They need to think of books, and the content within them, as relevant to their lives, which means freedom to react in their own way--otherwise, it's just something they're supposed to acknowledge but not touch.
I suspect that eventually, kids will be given digital tablets instead of schoolbooks--but I think we're more than 10 years away from that, and maybe more than 25 years. The tablets need to be a lot more durable, and the programming a lot more useful and stable, before it can replace the versatility of a book next to a pencil and notepad.
And we'll still need picture books and fuzzy books for small children, and other books so they understand why those are related to the words-on-a-screen reading material. (Also, I don't want a generation of kids who can operate the new super iPodstravaganza, but don't know how to find an entry in a traditional encyclopedia because they've never had to learn how a paper index works.)