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Tablet Adoption Lowers Reading of Physical Books, Newspapers, Survey Shows

pcworld.com (10 months and 21 days ago)

Jul 4, 2012

More than half of tablet adopters are reading books and other media on their tablet screens instead of relying on paper. full story

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Roald Dahl books no longer a favourite amongst schoolchildren

A new survey of children's reading tastes shows Dahl books pushed out of top 10 by Twilight and Harry Potter novels.

telegraph.co.uk (3 months and 16 days ago)

Roald Dahl books no longer a favourite amongst schoolchildren in the US

A new survey of children's reading tastes shows Dahl books pushed out of top 10 by Twilight and Harry Potter novels.

telegraph.co.uk (3 months and 16 days ago)

Toddlers and tech: 'Whenever we denied her the tablet, we had an instant meltdown'

Now that tablets are on the media menu, parents have new decisions to make. How much “tablet time” is OK for kids? At what age? And what kind — the “shows” that just stare at them or the puzzles, games and books that keep them engaged? In Sunday’s column I explore

seattletimes.com (3 months and 4 days ago)

Texting 'lowers students' grades'

Students who spend long periods each day texting fall behind in their studies but reading newspapers could boost their performance, according to a new study.

telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 12 days ago)

Alarm over secondary school reading habits

Survey of 300,000 pupils discovers children are choosing books well below their reading ageThere is something "seriously amiss" with the way children are encouraged to read in secondary school, with many reading books with an average reading age as much as four years below their actual age, according to a new report which quizzed more than 300,000 British schoolchildren on...

guardian.co.uk (2 months and 20 days ago)

Bookboard Streams Kids' Books to the iPad; But Are E-books Good For Your Children?

Bookboard is a new digital subscription service that streams children’s books to the iPad. My boys and I have been testing it for about a month. Bookboard provides us with a steady supply of new storybooks at bedtime. It employs gamification elements to keep my seven year old son motivated to keep reading on his own. And it has caused me to reflect on the experience of...

forbes.com (1 month and 7 days ago)

Review: Kobo Aura HD

Introduction The Kobo Aura HD has landed on the ereader market as a direct rival to the better known, and more popular, Amazon Paperwhite, and, to a lesser extent, other tablet devices offering similar services such as the Nook Simple Touch Glowlight.Kobo are positioning the Aura HD as a high-end ereading device that is built for people who love books and nothing else.That...

techradar.com (23 days ago)

Which is the best tablet for reading?

Nomad doesn't want an e-reader but he would like to buy a tablet for long hours of reading, particularly PDF files. Which one would be best?Tablets are becoming popular as e-readers, for books, documents, PDFs etc. I'm wondering if there is an ideal screen resolution for long hours of reading text. Will the difference in ppi of the Google Nexus 10 and Apple iPad 4 produce a...

guardian.co.uk (1 month and 20 days ago)

When it comes to who’s reading newspapers, whose count counts?

When it comes to who’s reading newspapers, whose count counts? by Paul Beebe The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 27, 2013 01:01AM MDT Television has Nielsen. Radio looks to Arbitron. Twice a year, the Alliance for Audited Media puts out circulation numbers for hundreds of daily newspapers. Now, with nearly four in 10 people getting their news with smartphones, tablets and...

sltrib.com (28 days ago)

Abortion limits babies for adoption (4/1/13)

Editor:There is no mystery about the dearth of babies for adoption in our nation ("Adoption elusive dream," Reading Eagle, March 25).God gave us the gift of life, but we have aborted babies by the tens of millions. Now we go beyond our borders to fin...

readingeagle.com (1 month and 23 days ago)

Tablet Adoption Lowers Reading of Physical Books, Newspapers, Survey Shows

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Roald Dahl books no longer a favourite amongst schoolchildren

Roald Dahl books no longer a favourite amongst schoolchildren in the US

Toddlers and tech: 'Whenever we denied her the tablet, we had an instant meltdown'

Texting 'lowers students' grades'

Alarm over secondary school reading habits

Bookboard Streams Kids' Books to the iPad; But Are E-books Good For Your Children?

Review: Kobo Aura HD

Which is the best tablet for reading?

When it comes to who’s reading newspapers, whose count counts?

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