Many children want to read books on digital devices and would read for fun more frequently if they could obtain e-books. But even if they had that access, two-thirds of them would not want to give up their traditional print books.

These are a few of the findings in a study being released on Wednesday by Scholastic, the American publisher of the Harry Potter books and the “Hunger Games” trilogy.

The report set out to explore the attitudes and behaviors of parents and children toward reading books for fun in a digital age. Scholastic surveyed more than 2,000 children ages 6 to 17, and their parents, in the spring.

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1. Archer_of_the_Forest wrote: They have been doing some interesting studies on the effects of text messaging on kids. The studies are in the first stages, but the initial findings I hear is that brain appears to interpret text from reading books digitally the same way as it interprets text messaging: i.e. something that your brain does not retain in any sort of longer term memory. I will be interested to see if this trend bucks those initial studies. September 29, 1:13 pm | [comment link]

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