Kindle’s Impact on Student Reading

If Adults Read More on Kindle, Will Students?

It is a commonplace now in tweets and posts about the experience of owning a Kindle that users find themselves reading more on the Kindle than they did before. That is certainly my story. I browse the Wall Street Journal every morning now, and currently have two novels going. The time I spend reading has…

Kindle, Schools, and the Love of Reading

Kelly asks on her blog: How about a Kindle’s impact on schools? Put a new Kindle in the hand of a child already pre-downloaded with some rich literature and watch their eyes light up on the first day of school. Will children discover a new love for reading? All I know is that I have…

Students Buying Books on School’s Kindle

Kathy Schrock has a great solution for the “credit card enabled” aspect of the Kindle: …since any user of the Kindle can purchase a new title from the Kindle store from the Kindle itself, we did not know how we were going to control students from purchasing books on a whim. We are solving the…