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Old 06-20-2011, 02:20 PM   #46
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I taught my daughter to read when she was 3. At that time she loved being told or read stories and she got a lot of them. Because a lot of her stories didn't come out of books, she didn't necessarily care that much about the medium. I think that may be the secret. I also taught her to type (on a computer) before she learned to write. By 5 she was a very fluent reader. She is now 35, so that was a long time ago.

I can't see any reason why children ought to be put off ebooks, other than an addiction to pictures. And one way of getting round that is to say, "Shall we draw a picture of...?"
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I also taught her to type (on a computer) before she learned to write. By 5 she was a very fluent reader. She is now 35, so that was a long time ago.
Were personal computers already commonplace when she was that young?
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Were personal computers already commonplace when she was that young?
Apple, Commodore, RadioShack (Tandy) and probably more had home computers out in 1977. My first was an Altair 8800, which was selling in kit form in 1974 (OMG I feel soooo old all of a sudden...........)
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Apple, Commodore, RadioShack (Tandy) and probably more had home computers out in 1977. My first was an Altair 8800, which was selling in kit form in 1974 (OMG I feel soooo old all of a sudden...........)
We didn't really get those stuff in my country. First PC I used was an IBM clone (286 CPU, I think) in 1993/94. I guess we were way behind the US back then. Nowadays, though, release and availability of tech products is roughly the same as in the US (bar the iPhone which the US still gets first).
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Were personal computers already commonplace when she was that young?
It wasn't a personal computer.
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Old 06-20-2011, 06:55 PM   #51
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It wasn't a personal computer.
haha, PWNED.

It's even more funny when you think some years down the road you'll be getting to explain people used to type at all to write things on the computer, as opposed to simply speak and have it automatically translated into writing...
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haha, PWNED.

It's even more funny when you think some years down the road you'll be getting to explain people used to type at all to write things on the computer, as opposed to simply speak and have it automatically translated into writing...
While Linux flies their fusion powered flying car, no doubt. Yeah, just around the corner.

(Even if somebody finally manages a reliably enough voice interface for computers, manufacturers will find little market for it. People just aren't interested in having everyone near them know everything they do on their computer. It's distracting, and annoying. Imagine a cubicle farm where everyone is talking all the time.)
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I also have a 3 1/2 yr old son. We read before bed everyday and he chooses two books. He now tries to "read" them to me also which I encourage (describes what's on the pictures). I showed him my ereader but he couldn't care less, what with the grey screen and black letters. Btw, any parent also turning green in the face while reading the same story every evening day in day out for 6 months on demand? But I survived!
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While Linux flies their fusion powered flying car, no doubt. Yeah, just around the corner.

(Even if somebody finally manages a reliably enough voice interface for computers, manufacturers will find little market for it. People just aren't interested in having everyone near them know everything they do on their computer. It's distracting, and annoying. Imagine a cubicle farm where everyone is talking all the time.)
Everyone is talking all the time, either live or on the phone -- even at work, even in IT workplace. Where do you live?
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Btw, any parent also turning green in the face while reading the same story every evening day in day out for 6 months on demand? But I survived!
[Raises hand, waves frantically] Oooh! Oooh! Me! Me! Twin girls, each wanting a story over and over and over and over, but each one wanting a different story than the other.
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Btw, any parent also turning green in the face while reading the same story every evening day in day out for 6 months on demand? But I survived!
I guess I'm lucky, Douglas has loads of books and he doesn't usually ask for the same story over and over.
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It wasn't a personal computer.
Curious then, what was it? You mentioned you taught your daughter typing on the computer (Atari, Commodore 64, etc counts as computers) so I was genuinely curious. I probably wasn't even alive back then and I was already around 10 years old or so before the family bought our first PC (486) and I was one of two people in the class who had one.
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[Raises hand, waves frantically] Oooh! Oooh! Me! Me! Twin girls, each wanting a story over and over and over and over, but each one wanting a different story than the other.
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oh my that's even worse, how did you cope? I think though it was a pay back time as my mother told me I was asking for the same story over and over when I was little too...
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Curious then, what was it? You mentioned you taught your daughter typing on the computer (Atari, Commodore 64, etc counts as computers) so I was genuinely curious. I probably wasn't even alive back then and I was already around 10 years old or so before the family bought our first PC (486) and I was one of two people in the class who had one.
probably:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter

Writers and journalists used these from the end of the 19 century until about the microcomputer boom in the 1980's.
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My daughter is 30 and doesn't want to hear anything about an ereader like you, I read her stories when she was little and it was as much fun for me as it was for her she says she loves the feeling and the smell of a paper book and that it's a big part of the pleasure for her
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