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Originally Posted by europas_ice
I'm curious how young you all think that kids could be using today's ebooks. Let's start the poll at first grade, though hopefully a lot of kids start reading before that. At what grade range would you get your kid an ebook reader? And which one would you get?
Let's assume you could find age appropriate material for the ebook.
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First, I'd want to get the kid
reading, deliberately, for fun. An awful lot of folks never learned to view reading as anything other than a chore they had to do, and do so only when required.
The best way to do
that is to set an example by reading
to them, when they are still to young to do it themselves.
If you use an ebook reader when you read to them, they'll also pick up the idea that it's a tool they can use to do it. When they say "Can I try?", you can start letting them use a reader, under supervision, setting further examples of how you take care of the device.
When the kid starts making noises about having one of her own,
then you start thinking about whether to get one and which to get.
How old she'll be at this point will depend on the kid.
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Dennis