Honestly I think there is room for a middle ground. E-Ink tablets. I remember all the backbreaking heavy books I had to carry as a kid and don’t want my nieces and nephews dealing with that but the current screen time is not great either. E-ink has inherent limitations that make it a poor fit for all the worst parts of the tech industry but great for this.

It still doesn’t solve the part where it’s not a book. As a CS major a lot of my books went digital early on. I can say from experience that there’s something about having to press a button to go to turn the page that makes it far less intuitive and harder to research in. Regardless of E ink or laptop or whatever.