I’m in the home stretch of reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief to the kids (which is great by the way, especially if you like the Harry Potter series). Even though we’ve graduated to books with no pictures, they love sitting over me and watching the pages turn as we weave through the story. The Lightning Thief is a real page turner filled with demigods, monsters, Zeus and his dysfunctional family.
My husband got me the Amazon Kindle for Christmas. It’s fantastic! I’ve been complaining about lugging books and magazines on the ferry everyday but resisted buying it because the price seemed far too exorbitant. After you spend 5 minutes with this easy-to-use wonder you will quickly forget about the damage done to your bank account. Books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and the classics for $.99!
So, here’s my conundrum. As we come to the end of The Lightning Thief, do I buy the sequel on the Kindle? It’s certainly the more eco-friendly option and I’m sure the kids can get used to the interface (after all, they mastered the Wii in a day and I still can’t figure out how to turn the thing off). It seems strange, almost wrong to read to the kids from the Kindle. Call me a purist, but my instinct is to keep buying and reading them real books. Anyone else have a perspective?
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Ummm...buy the sequel in hard/paper back. You'll want the series for the bookshelf!!
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