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Originally Posted by jpd
I have always been a reader. My only hesitation would be getting it for a just finished 5th grader. One of the best parts of reading at that age was looking through libraries and bookstores and finding great books based on the covers and luck. At her age, she should experience that before going all electronic and stuff.
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I just read an interesting book -
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much... and it talked about that - how the physical form of the book becomes part of our personal history - the feel of the pages, how it opens to a well loved passage, how the stains on the cover remind you of the summer at the beach when you read it, even the smell when you open it, takes us to a point in our personal history. That we become connected through our own timeline with the books on our shelves.