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One of the many advantages of reading a book on a Kindle is: if you don't know the meaning of a word you just touch it and the definition pops up. When this happens when reading a printed book, many people, kids included, are to lazy to look it up so they never learn the definition.
Also, if you have an Amazon Echo nearby, you can just ask Alexa to define or even spell a word for you:
How often does your child have to look up words? If it hAppens frequently, then the text is too difficult.
Well...I don't know exactly, but frequently enough.
I am not sure I agree with this theory, however: that if you need to look up too many words, then the text is too difficult. It is by reading such texts that they will eventually learn the words and find the text easy enough. Those words must be assimilated at some point - and reading books that use them is the way to do it in the first place.
For example, Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm - a non-dumbed down version. Elementary school children used to be expected to assimilate those words.
Now they read Magic Tree House books where their minds are minimally challenged and there is virtually no need to stop and look up any words because they are very simplistically written, even for a kindergartner/1st grader.
One of the many advantages of reading a book on a Kindle is: if you don't know the meaning of a word you just touch it and the definition pops up. When this happens when reading a printed book, many people, kids included, are to lazy to look it up so they never learn the definition.
Also, if you have an Amazon Echo nearby, you can just ask Alexa to define or even spell a word for you:
I agree that many people are too lazy to look up the word in the dictionary; and I am not moralizing, it simply is annoying to interrupt the reading process for too long, every step of the way.
So yes...Kindle would have a major appeal in this respect...if you can touch the word and there is a built-in dictionary? I had no idea.
I don't know anything about Kindle because I have never used it as I find reading for pleasure off of electronics extremely bothersome.
Do you have to be connected to the Internet when you are on Kindle?
Can you also access the Net besides books? If yes, can that option be disabled?
I don't know anything about Kindle because I have never used it as I find reading for pleasure off of electronics extremely bothersome.
Do you have to be connected to the Internet when you are on Kindle?
Can you also access the Net besides books? If yes, can that option be disabled?
You do not have to be connected to the Internet when you are reading things on a Kindle. You can read them in your dentist's waiting room, on an airplane, or when you are sitting in your Barcalounger. Of course you have to be connected when you are downloading things to it.
You cannot browse the Web on a Kindle. It's not like a tablet.
When you touch a word to find its definition there is a second option to look it up on Wikipedia. For instance, if you came across the word Kazakhstan, you could look up its dictionary definition and also read its Wikipedia article.
You are not limited to reading books on a Kindle. You can send things to it. Every morning I browse the Web for news and opinion and other articles. Unless they are very brief I don't like reading them on my computer screen so I send them to my Kindle and read them at my leisure. They are formatted, sent to Amazon who sends them via the Internet to my Kindle.
You can also send .doc, .pdf and other things.
I don't find reading things on my Kindle Paperwhite to be the same as reading them on other electronic devices. With all of its features - font choice, font size, the things mentioned above, etc., I also find it to be far superior to print on paper.
I agree that many people are too lazy to look up the word in the dictionary; and I am not moralizing, it simply is annoying to interrupt the reading process for too long, every step of the way.
This is what happens when the text is too difficult.
And a graphing calculator and MP3 player and Book reader and City map, etc., etc.
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