One looming sea change in the field of literacy is the emergence of e-book readers like the Kindle or the Nook which will be rolled out by Barnes & Noble this holiday season.
The increased availability of these devices and download-able books will have some people saying, "It's about time!" while others will be decrying the death of literature. Hyperbole abounds.
Literacy is evolving, but not going away. Neither are books. They will simply be joined by new devices that, who knows, may even help boost literacy.
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I love my Kindle. Saves me dragging the usual two or three books around. Best part is downloading entire collections. I have the entire Sherlock Holmes corpus, all of Dickens, and every play written by Shakespeare. A lot of these older publications are $1 per download.
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