How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books

Re:How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books by chatmasta on Saturday July 14, 2018 @07:26AM (#17529873)

You must be living under a rock then, because Amazon has sold millions of kindles. They are not all kids buying them.

Kindle causes me to read far more than I would otherwise. A few reasons:

- Hundreds of books fit in a space smaller than a single physical book

- Can read at night without an overhead light bothering myself or anyone else (and without blue light!)

- Can travel (and/or move houses) without books taking up space

- Can download a new book in five minutes vs going to the store or waiting for a delivery. This makes it much easier to start books

- Can come back to a book I bought three years ago while living in a totally different place

Getting a kindle was the best decision I ever made in terms of encouraging myself to read.

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Re:How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books by pnutjam on Saturday July 14, 2018 @09:34AM (#17530272)

I read everything on my phone, because I don't want to carry another device. I sync things with my calibre server.

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Re:How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books by jhbadger on Saturday July 14, 2018 @08:46PM (#17533177)

I use both (and Kindle books sync your position between devices). It's nice to read on your phone because it is always there. But it is just more comfortable to read on a e-ink screen both because of the size and the fact that things like sunlight don't wash out the screen.

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Re:How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books by pnutjam on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:27PM (#17542555)

With a black background and Yellow or off-white text I have less problems. I also have a night text that is orange-ish or brownish if it's really dark where I'm reading.

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