It seems more like the iPad might kill those toys dressed as interactive books then, which show images of a story and so.
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so a child has to read books with all text and no pictures so they can form their own images of everything? better take away those coloring books too. tv. movies. magazines. everything with an image on it, so you child can form their own images.
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The superseding of audiovisual material over plain text is a well-proven phenomenon, the same as a fictional portraying supersedes a real one. Why would monks draw luxuriously beginning letters of each chapter of the books they preserved, otherwise? They knew that their content would be more appealing if they did.
Myths like Dracula's or Robin Hood's are mainly built in the modern era due to their cinematographical appeal, while without the help of cinema they'd be a rather intense book about another Eastern European mad nobleman, and a traditional British bandit tale, respectively.
I'm not saying it is bad or good, I'm just saying it happens. If you expose people to a film, and then to the film in which this film was made, they will read the descriptions with an input in mind, the one of the film. In case they don't know the film, they must build it with their own imagination. Our minds are made to fill in the gaps, and they'll resort to any concept fitting and available in that task. If you have a film about the book you're reading in your mind, it just makes the process easier, as you just "grab it from your hard disk" (to put a computing metapher) instead of creating it from scratch.