Very interesting! We have some dear friends who are raising their family sort-of partially off-grid. Their oldest is 10, and it's paper books all the way. Screen time is very limited. There's something wonderful about real books. For one thing, I believe that in the not-too-distant future the general population are going to lose everything we have currently stored in the cloud, and perhaps on our devices. Those of us in the luddite camp will still have robust libraries.
Just checked, I've 662 e-books in my computer, including the 1917 Harvard classic shelf full set, and probably an order of magnitude more of paper books on the shelves.
Yep, nurture and exposure, hence both my children are avid readers. My savage teenage granddaughter right now is more into manga and graphic novels but hey, words on paper as well as pictures, I can't fault her too much.
& OK, exposure again, me being exposed to graphic novels (Ain't the dime Superman & Archie I grew up with!) , I gotta admit I enjoyed reading all seven volumes of Ellis & Robertson, graphic , Transmetropolitan, what's not to love about Spider Jerusalem? ;-)
Yep, their reading whatever's good and I suspect, sooner or later my STA granddaughter will find writers like Ellis & Robertson ain't bad but Dostoevsky said it better!
Very interesting! We have some dear friends who are raising their family sort-of partially off-grid. Their oldest is 10, and it's paper books all the way. Screen time is very limited. There's something wonderful about real books. For one thing, I believe that in the not-too-distant future the general population are going to lose everything we have currently stored in the cloud, and perhaps on our devices. Those of us in the luddite camp will still have robust libraries.
Just checked, I've 662 e-books in my computer, including the 1917 Harvard classic shelf full set, and probably an order of magnitude more of paper books on the shelves.
Yep, nurture and exposure, hence both my children are avid readers. My savage teenage granddaughter right now is more into manga and graphic novels but hey, words on paper as well as pictures, I can't fault her too much.
& OK, exposure again, me being exposed to graphic novels (Ain't the dime Superman & Archie I grew up with!) , I gotta admit I enjoyed reading all seven volumes of Ellis & Robertson, graphic , Transmetropolitan, what's not to love about Spider Jerusalem? ;-)
Yep, their reading whatever's good and I suspect, sooner or later my STA granddaughter will find writers like Ellis & Robertson ain't bad but Dostoevsky said it better!
Reminds me of Stanislaus Lem's novel...