Re: Why not something reasonable like a Kindle?
"But how will you lock down the kindles to stop the little darlings..."
What would you lock down?
The internal browser sucks for pretty much anything a child would be interested in wasting time on. And if you are concerned by the books they have access to, just restrict them to a specific set of sites to download them (Or just cut out the ability to pay for anything so they'd be stuck with getting books from the school's and the public libraries).
That is the beauty of the Kindle: it does just a single task and very little else, so there is very little that needs to be controlled or locked down. This also greatly reduces the motivation to root the things, since there is very little reward in doing so.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
