Another thing I like about the iPad is that my son, when he is tired of just reading, can participate in online debates with people from other countries. He has to read even more to find information to support his arguments. My son and a girl from Canada were the last two people still arguing about whatever it was they were arguing about until 3:00 a.m. Everyone else in the debate got tired of it and went to bed. My son loves this kind of thing. One of his online friends is in college studying political science and whenever he mentions some of the things he is learning, my son looks up information about that. He really learns a lot this way.