> These strange papery things are also rather portable. I remember having books transported through an ocean and paying half of my allowances every month to ge

> These strange papery things are also rather portable. I remember having books transported through an ocean and paying half of my allowances every month to get two of them while I was in middle school. Same when my kid was born: pre-school kids' books are massively absent from ebooks, publisher assume they won't have a device and don't really care about accessiblity, and it's a real PITA to find books that are either out of publication or in foreign languages. Portable they are not, at least compared to a few MO of data this days. I think the underlying assumption in this thread is that "books" are a commodity and are purely interchangeable. You just give "books" to your kids and they'll like it. I'd disagree.