@Jamie, I think if you explain it to her (and keep showing her that you do it) then she’ll get it. It’ll just take time. And I think it’s good that you read print books sometimes too. It’ll teach her that you can read anywhere anytime. Good lesson to learn 🙂

My kids finally get that I actually do work on my computer. I do other things too, but now they understand that my work is here.

@Jamie, I don’t think it is wrong to read all your books on your mobile. I personally prefer to hold a book in my hands, instead of some cold metal or plastic box.
I like your parenting approach very much. My parents read books whenever we went on vacation, so it became one of my habbits to pack at least two or three books into my bag when I leave the country, I still do…although now the language switched from German to English 😉
My parents never forced us to read but they encouraged us. I remember the first day of me getting a library card…I went to the crime section (I was around seven years old) and picked an Agatha Christie novel!

@Jamie, Eh, so you’re texting. I do that A LOT as a way of doing business or staying in touch. My phone makes it easy to do. Why not take advantage of technology?

Or as I said, tell the world to deal and don’t judge you LOL!

@Jamie, I don’t understand why the format has to be platform-specific. Can’t they encode them like MP3s, playable on all? And if I can have ARCs that expire on my computer, shouldn’t you be able to do the same thing with books? I think it’ll come eventually, but it’ll take time.

@Elizabeth, I agree. If they are going to make it so I can lend, then make it so I can LEND, darnit!

@Rosemary, well, like right now she is using her tag reader to read books, and I think that’s a good thing.

I guess its just that I don’t want all this modeling to go to waste, ya know?

@@jmartinlibrary, HAHA now that’s not a bad idea…

😉

@Dome, it isn’t about my kid not having a book, ebook, etc. in front of her… she has those things. It’s about the actual modeling–I don’t think modeling works as an exercise if it’s forced, I like it to be natural… and I don’t want to model the wrong behavior. My issue is that I read pretty much exclusively on the phone, with a paper book being the exception. Maybe I should change that…

I also agree with Julie K uptopic. As someone who played Diner Dash for WAY too long last night, there’s not really a way to mistake frenzied tapping of the screen for page turning. 😀

@Jamie, well, for the purpose of modeling you can always grab a book…and read on your phone when the little one isn’t around. I believe it depends on the child really. We think way too much about what we can teach them insead of learning from them. Give her a book and give her an ebook, see what happens next.

This is totally lame and should be fixed, but eBooks are awesome. And I think your 4yo is smart enough to know how you spend a lot of your time staring at your iPhone. Maybe mention it, but I’m sure she recognizes your behavior when you’re reading, and can know by glancing at you whether you’re reading or playing Diner Dash. Kids are smart.

@Sascha Illyvich, Well, for me I LOVE reading a book on my cell over a kindle because it’s small and I really like the size. It’s my preferred method of ebook reading… but I worry that it just looks like I am texting friends… you know?

@Julie K, of course people should read them, but I wonder if a 4 year old’s perception matters at all here…

@Dome, but, the issue I have with that is that modeling is supposed to be just something we sort of do without any real explanation–if we’re doing all that showing and stuff, it kind of defeats the purpose of modeling, right?

@WritingLeigh, I would LOVE that. If I could let someone borrow an ebook for a week or two. I think you can do that with the Nook, but it doesn’t really seem to be catching on.

@Jamie, that’s the biggest issue with EBooks, to me. I love them for some things, but I’m about to ship a box of books off to one of my BFFs, and I couldn’t DO that with ebooks. Now, if they’d figure out a way to get over license management and let you “lend out” an ebook, we’d be in business!

Besides, as someone with an ebook coming out, I want people reading them 😛

IF you can afford the technology (kindle at under $200) why not get one. If not, is your current model working?

Best,

Sascha Illyvich