video games as gateway to reading?

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This seems a bit like saying that gourmet food is a gateway to opera, but the NY Times has a story about how book publishers and libraries are trying to use video games to get kids interested in reading.

Silly me, I would have thought that you would just use really engaging and exciting books.
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