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Are Paper Books Becoming Dinosaurs?

March 19, 2013 By barrie@compassdesigns.net 11 Comments

kindle_darwinWe recently had our family vacation with our three boys and it was somewhat new territory for us. It was the first vacation we have been on where the majority of our boys are reading. In the last few months, our 8 year old has really hit that place where his reading has grown in leaps and bounds.

Apart from the significant amount of peace and quiet we gained, I noticed we were lugging around a lot of books and it really got me thinking about Kindles.

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