Bedtime stories now available on children's iPods

A company called audible.com is now making children's books available for iPods. While this may seem like an attractive concept, I believe it keeps children from actually learning to read and gives them a more convenient way of "reading" the book. While the company argues this will help reluctant readers to begin enjoying reading, the American Library Association believes it is important to correlate the reading of words to the text. While the idea coincides with our technology today, I would not encourage books on iPod to take the place of reading.

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