eBooks, Apps, and Their Use in the Classroom.

eBooks are awesome. I should preface this by saying I was an early adopter of e-Readers. I went through several generations of Barnes & Noble's Nook, later switching to a Kindle HD Fire, and, ultimately, using the Kindle and Nook apps to access all my titles via other devices that do more; namely my iPhone and iPad. My love of eBooks was extended to my children as well as the classrooms I volunteered in. My children had e-readers, even though the majority of the titles (and all previous to owning an e-Reader) were physical paper books. I was not as fond of them for my children until they reached chapter-book above stages, however - primarily due to the distracting bells and whistles embedded in the eBooks. However, this is a subjective stance, since my children were all high-level readers and devoured traditional books since a young age. In the classroom, the screen size of my Nook and Kindle tablets was not as large as my current iPad, which was limiting - but I would...