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Grades 4-6

Meet an E-Reader

Can your backpack fit 1,500 books? An e-reader can. Most e-readers are pencil-thin and weigh less than a pound. They can download an e-book in 60 seconds. Don't understand the meaning of a word? Click on it to get the definition. Is the print too small? An e-reader can adjust the size.

E-readers aren't cheap, but it costs the school just $5 or $10 to download an e-book on as many as six e-readers. "Now, students have access to a million titles," Corbett says.

Still, regular books have one big advantage over e-readers: They don't use electricity. E-readers have to be charged, like cell phones.

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