Mar 12 2009
Kids and Kindle – James Fallows
Kids and Kindle – James Fallows
My wife is only days away from receiving her exciting new new-to-her Kindle, which is to say that I expect soon to get my hands on a Kindle 2. Meanwhile this note from a good friend about the machine’s effect in his household:
An (unreported?) Kindle phenomenon: 11-year old girl, drove parents crazy by not reading books because totally addicted to electronics, has now transferred total addiction to Kindle 2 – and now does nothing, ever, but read books, one after another. In bed, in the car, while eating – while crossing streets!
[My wife] says, “Let’s buy Amazon stock. In six months, the world will have discovered this particular phenomenon.” (She is the one who had the sudden insight that this might work for [our daughter].)
This from one of my favorite writers who blogs for The Atlantic Monthly magazine, from yesterday. Perhaps the Kindle and other e-readers will spark an interest in reading for some students? Having approached the issue of reading before, this one got me to thinking is all . . . .
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That would seem like a real possibility. People who “don’t write” seem to be able to twitter, IM, email and in some cases even blog. Maybe people who “don’t read” will take to doing it electronically, too. I hope so!