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Not at all. My oldest DGS is still only 2, so stories with him, his baby brother and his cousin are from real books, on a real knee, with really silly voices from a real nana, and really big cuddles!

Technology only comes into it when I'm looking online for picture books that I can't find in a real shop.

I love the choice that TECHNOLOGY gives me with my grandsons.
There are so many lovely colourful, interesting books now that it is a joy to read from them. We have our favourites, for different reasons.
My kindle and ipad offer even more choice. We can read in many places now, at many opportunities, waiting in the car, during shopping, a treat time. The books on the kindle offer many interactions, background information, meanings of words, tasks to complete during the story, and most of all you still get the cuddles !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing has changed - I love my Kindle for the sheer volume of reading material it holds particularly for holidays but nothing can replace a real book and my grand daughter loves choosing which book she is going to have at bedtime - it's a toss up who has more books her or the local library and as she gets older it is a joy to hear her reading for herself books which she loved me to read to her just a short time ago.

Technology at bed time has not reached us yet as our oldest grandson is not 4 until Christmas, and the youngest was 2 in August. Love to snuggle up in bed with the oldest boy and have a good read. He gets sleepy after the silly voices settle down and the story goes quiet. He tends to join in at times as he has selected the same book previously and remembers the plot! We also have quiet reading times in the daytime for the toddler. He likes to flip the pages and point at everything - then sometimes has a power nap. Customised reading books are good for children as they can interact with them - especially if their name is mentioned. Involving the place they live and their house, with their own front door would be amazing. Reading, holding and feeling books will last a lifetime. However, I use technology myself by using the internet to search for special books as gifts for them.

Not at all I think there is a place for technology and a bedtime story is not one of them. I have nurtured a love of books with them since they were babies which they continue to develop. I the smell of paper, the touch, the illustrations, the flicking of pages back and forth, the glance of the book on the shelf in passing, comforting that its their favourite book to be relished later. A secret world enclosed between written pages....no nothing can replace a book. And the stories I deliver out of my head to pass down through generations which can be varied as required at a seconds notice and give me unlimted scope of my imagination....no technology belongs in another part of the day

It hasn't. We still read traditional paperback books.

I do not think Technology has changed the way I read stories to my grandchildren. You cannot beat the personal interaction between the children and yourself when you are reading them stories....my grandchildren are very happy to ditch their I-pads for a story read by Nan or Grandad! Never from a Kindle or similar appliance but from a BOOK! Lately I have been telling them made up stories linked to whatever has happened to them or ourselves, these become long and rambling with add-ons from the children with some very satisfactory made up endings...or tantalising teasers for the next night. Technology is fabulous for disseminating knowledge and facts but you cannot beat the warmth of close encounters of a book kind!

Being able to push a sound button at the appropriate time in a story is great fun!

All of my DG are technology mad and sadly often have to be physically removed from an iPad but they are always more than happy to cuddle up with a book, they love the anticipation of the turning of a page and like the feel of a nice book. We often visit the library and the local bookshop. So, in fact technology has not really changed our reading habits at all.

We don't usually have to fall back on technology - but at the beginning of this week, GS (8) came to stay without bringing any of his books to read, so we had to fall back at bedtime on 'Treasure Island', stored on my kindle and synch'd to my iPad. Phew! He was intrigued that I knew the tune to "Fifteen men on a dead man's chest; yo ho ho and a bottle of rum"! He has a reading programme that they use at school which he can access on the iPad. Bug Club, I think it's called, which has reading comprehension questions involved. We will sometimes look at those when he is here. I can see the advantages of using e-readers, but there's nothing to beat sharing a proper book with a child.

I don't think it's changed anything, my son prefers his gran (or me) to read to him from a physical book.

Call me old fashioned but we still use the good old Ladybird books!
We have 'Grandma's bookcase' where loads of books are available within easy reach including something like 300 old Ladybird books. The girls are intrigued because they know that their Daddy learned to read through these books and even has his name written in some of them!
I leave the technology to school and parents as it's way beyond me (but don't tell the girls that!!!

I love to take my granddaughter to the library when she comes to say she loves to pick the books and we snuggle up to read them before she goes to sleep and now that she is starting to read it's great to listen to her read a few pages she does play games on my kindle but reading a book with her is a special treat for both of us

I still read from books to my grandchildren. They are used to seeing Daddy and Nanna reading from a kindle.
I don't think the bedtime story routine with the grandchildren is any different from my own children.

When my children were small we would read a book and watch TV, now i have grandchildren we watch nursery rhymes on the laptop & watch dvds. we still read books but the children seem to spend more time with technology than with each other.

Hasnt changed anything at all. We still read normal books and cuddle up together to read a story. Nothing can beat a good book with your kids xx

not really i love the feel and touch of a real book so although the kids have tablets nothing beats an old fashioned book here

Both my grandchildren have kindles but they are kept downstairs so bedtime story has not changed at all. My DD was always so careful with her books so now GS enjoys reading her old Secret Sevens amongst others.

Not really, one loved a bedtime story up to at least 12. The 5 year old is far too attached to using screens yet still likes Kipper and, especially, The Little Boy Who Lost his Name at bedtime.

Technology hasn't changed the way I read to my grandchild at all. He loves his mums Ipad for games but prefers a physical book to be read to him.

I still read stories to my grandson same way I read stories to his Mum and Uncle when they were children. You really can't beat an actual book to read and to look at.

Technology has made it easier to find a particular book at the right price though.

My grandson loves having stories read to him and it just wouldn't be the same if it wasn't an actual book that he can feel and touch. Technology does make finding books at the right price much easier than trawling around but having said that we still like trips to the book shop.

I wouldn't say technology has really changed the way I read with my grandson (or youngest niece & nephew) as I don't own a kindle or an iPad and tend to use the laptop for other things (learning and projects for instance). I still think the best way is to snuggle up on the bed and read the book with them, sit beside them reading as they drift off and even to let them read to you as their confidence grows or they reach favourite parts of favourite stories. Quiet reading times in the daytime are also good to just find a small space and read or a book relating to something you were discussing or on a similar topic etc.

Technology has made it easier to find out about new books etc. but has not altered the way I read to my grandson.

It has made reading more interactive and has made it possible for me to read to my granddaughters through Skype, even though they live over 5000 miles away.