We have an iPad and love it. We have a Kindle app on the iPad, so that opens up the options quite a bit for reading. My high school son has downloaded numerous free college textbooks for reading on it, and I use some of the apps on it for my younger son to practice multiplication tables, etc. And he loves the Paint app we have - the multi-touch screen makes for a fun non-mess finger painting project.

~Lisa
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