Karen E. Smith, PhD, is a university professor and researcher in literacy education. She has published widely on the topic of digital literacy. Dr. Smith promotes inter-generational reading practices and family literacy especially through the interchangeable use of both paper-based books and e-readers. She states, "Literacy learning is a cultural and family practice. Literacy practices are now mixed between paper and e-texts. For the sake of literacy acquisition, let us not separate the generations into the digital natives and digital immigrants. Literacy is cultural, and therefore we need to