E-book readers will (I hope) prove to be a revolution in that point. My country gave one laptop to every schoolchild, but I wish they'd consider giving out e-b

E-book readers will (I hope) prove to be a revolution in that point. My country gave one laptop to every schoolchild, but I wish they'd consider giving out e-book readers instead (or in addition to). With the Gutenberg project and other resources, an enterprising child with the reading bug should have plenty to chew on :) . OTOH, as a child I read stuff due to being book-deprived which I probably wouldn't have read if I had had access to other options (encyclopaedias from cover to cover, astronomy and physics books, etc..)