ecsy911 wrote:Thanks ksl for your encouragement and advice. My idea is only in the budding stage, lots to think about and research on!
The biggest challenge, i think, is the competition against the e-world. Maybe i'll need to emphasize not just on the reading, but the sense of touch and hands-on activities for children - bring out the importance of these.
Yes exactly, there will always be a market for books, just as there is a market for vinyl records, so you need to create emotional disturbance sometimes, to make people realise what they are actually going to miss. The senses are very important to many products, Though Vinyl records are now increasing again over the years and romance is back in some homes too Though I guess books and Vinyl records go better on a winters night, with a roaring fire and a hot mug of drinking chocolate, rather than 32C degrees and high humiditybut the sense of touch and hands-on activities for children - bring out the importance of these.
I can empathize. I wish tablets and e-readers were around when I was in grade school...because all my teachers required us to bring textbooks everyday! And we had the same classes everyday!sundaymorningstaple wrote:Books are damaging to kids health as well. In fact it is been shown that the new electronic media is less prone to causing back problems in school children here in Singapore as they don't have to carry 30kg of books around on their backs every day in school like they did a few years ago.
Did anybody tell you that 'affluent' are so, mainly because they don't pay for things they don't need to pay ??ecsy911 wrote:Well I wouldnt want to keep the all the locals out, just select ones. I like to think the more affluent parents wouldnt be doing those things mentioned!
This argument is moot with true ereaders because of e-ink. E-ink does not use light and looks like ink on paper. People who get eye-strain looking at LCD/LED screens don't experience the same thing with e-ink screens.sundaymorningstaple wrote:The other thing about eReaders is the fact that most students in Singapore don't study with the best of lighting (you would have to see how they study at home), the eReader, with it's own light source would make a good case for "less" eyestrain, and potentially less myopia. This especially so with the newer fonts & shadings they they use. (At least visual myopia that is - the mental myopia we see here I think is hereditary).
+1, as from my experience having loaned out a Kindle and Nook for a few weeks ..nakatago wrote: This argument is moot with true ereaders because of e-ink. E-ink does not use light and looks like ink on paper. People who get eye-strain looking at LCD/LED screens don't experience the same think with e-ink screen.
Splitting hairs, yeah but hey...
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