Kobo Reader

For Mother's Day, my kids and grandkids bought me a kobo reader. Most people have heard of Kindles, Amazon.com's reader, or Barnes and Noble's Nook reader. I have not yet downloaded anything to my reader, but I am using it. It came with 100 or so books already loaded in it, and since I have never read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, I thought I would start there, just to see how convenient it was to use. And it is convenient. It is lighter than a book (except for maybe a small paperback), and I can adjust the size of the font so it's in larger print (getting old happens). Then I started thinking, which is always a dangerous thing.

At first, I thought that something like this would never work for children's picture books. How could they reproduce the colorful pictures that make the story for the child? But of course, it will soon come out in color. And the pictures may eventually evolve into 3D, so the child can really see what something looks like. And could these readers become interactive? Not sure how that would help a child's reading skills, though, and a computer can already do that. Also, how would you fit both the picture and the words to be read on one of these small screens?

We have so many technological advances in the past few years, I have no doubt that these kinds of questions will all be answered, and soon. If they haven't been already.