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Not a Jetbook, but a Sony, yes. I turned it loose on the five-year-olds at school. Th biggest problem that I see with little kids is how touchy-touchy they are when they read. They point at every word. So if you have a non-touchscreen reader they are going to get it very smudgy and if you have a touchscreen reader it could be a disaster because they might accidentally turn the pages every time they touch a word. If I had kids, I would happily get them their own reader once they hit the chapter book stage but I would not buy one for a little kid.

However, I do think kiddies tend to emulate their parents. Most of us who are heavy readers probably were read to as a child and had books in our homes. Monkey see, monkey do, right? The kids want to be like their parents. So if I had a child and I had an ebook reader I would certainly expect the child to be curious about it and I would read on it with the child, even before the point of getting them their own. Then they would want one and it would be a very special day for them when they finally get their own and get to come to the family computer with Mom or Dad and load it up with books.