This Article is about Gilbert Elementary School starting a book club using the Nook e-readers. The school purchased six e-readers, and is giving their sixth grade students an opportunity to use the Nook. The students check out the Nook form the library for two weeks. During that two week students use it to read what ever they want. By the end of the school year all of the sixth grade students will have had a turn with the Nooks. The school librarian says it is "my job as a librarian is to encourage and motivate kids to read, and I don't want to limit them in what they can read. She goes on to say that she feels that the Nook will not replace print books. The article also talked about how e-books are cheaper and that you don't have to wait as long for new releases. One example in the article was the book "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins cost $17.99 for a hardcover at Barnes & Noble, the paperback is $8.99, and the e-book is $5.
If it takes being able to check out the Nook from the library in order to get students to read then it is worth every penny spent. While the beginning investment is expensive. School libraries can easily make up the cost in the price of the e-books. Most school libraries buy hardcover books due to sturdiness. which if the school had bought six copies of "The Hunger Games" the would have spent $107.40 versus $5 for the e-book. This is a huge saving to a school budget. I hope that my future school will have some form of e-readers/tablet for student to use, even they can only use them in the library.
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