E-bookwise reader

[jmc_bks]

I forgot to mention: I took my e-bookwise reader with me to Mom's on Turkey Day. I usually watch TV and read in between bouts of eating and visiting with relatives; instead of a paperback, the reader went along. Everyone who saw it asked about it. My aunt particularly was intrigued. Her son Daniel, who is a junior in high school, is not keeping up with his reading, in part because he's utterly bored by Nathaniel Hawthorne (blech to The Scarlet Letter) and in part because he's not interested in sitting around with books. But he loves electronic toys. So she's thinking about an e-reader of some sort as a portable "toy" to tempt him to read more. If he's intrigued by toys, the e-bookwise may be not the best choice, since it is a dedicated reader...but giving him too many options (like games, web access, etc.) would reduce the likelihood that he would use the toy to actually read. We'll see. I think she's still hoping to entince him to read the old-fashioned way.