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Originally Posted by beppe
Come on Logseman. Let's not play with kids' mind. I am sorry that I brought up the Harry Potter caper.
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As a personal input, when I was 8 the first PC came home, an old Pentium, 100 Mhz. I was playing with games like
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, pirated in 6 diskettes. And none of my parents have ever said anything against pirating (my mother herself does read only pirated books in her reader). Maybe my circumstances are weird, I guess.
Nevertheless, I consider that the Harry Potter books are not suited for 8 year olds. The saga grows darker and edgier in every tome, and it would be pointless to allow the kid to read the first one, and then see that the fifth of the sixth are deemed unsuitable for the kid.
You might like to try Michael Ende's books. I recall seeing Momo and A Neverending Story on sale as ePubs, albeit in German. And if you can find his collections of little stories, please have the kid read them at once. She'll thank you forever.