Take the kid to a physical library a few times. I think the visceral experience of the vastness really has to be experienced by our spatial-relation lizard-brains. Explain the "anything you want, but only a few at a time" concept. Nurture the kid-in-a-candy-store wonder.
Then take them to the most impressive library you can feasibly drive to. Universities spring to mind. Let that awe really sink in. See if you can get a librarian to talk to the kid for a few minutes about why _they_ personally think this is important.
THEN introduce ebooks, gutenberg, archive.org, apps, etc. All that and then some, right here in the palm of your hand.
Then take them to the most impressive library you can feasibly drive to. Universities spring to mind. Let that awe really sink in. See if you can get a librarian to talk to the kid for a few minutes about why _they_ personally think this is important.
THEN introduce ebooks, gutenberg, archive.org, apps, etc. All that and then some, right here in the palm of your hand.