When I was really young and was still learning how to read, that's how I mentally pronounced the word "books"
I came across this article this morning. That one is derived from another, longer one at Salon.com but I linked the one here because of the question it raises at the end about the impact of e-books replacing physical books.
I know pretty much nothing about DRM for e-books, but even if they have policies similar to Apple's 5-pieces-of-hardware policy, I think that e-books will be able to have just as much of an impact on kids as physical books as long as a family e-book collection is browse-able. I'm kind of thinking along the lines of a family data center - maybe there aren't physical bookshelves anymore, but a family could still set up a repository for books (and other media I suppose) to be shared.
I do think that having access to my parents' book collection had a huge impact on me growing up - sometimes when we just couldn't get to the library or we were in the middle of a move or I was just plain curious about what went on in Mom and Dad's heads I'd pull down something to read, something I probably wouldn't have otherwise chosen, and ended up finding myself very pleasantly surprised.
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