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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Mothers are mothers the world over.
My big plan to achieve my annual quota of pain is to teach my mother to use calibre when she visits in the fall.
A pretty steep learning curve perhaps at 85 but learning keeps the brain from dying IMO.
Actually I am looking forward to her getting an ereader as she is worried about losing her vision(hopefully needlessly) and she will be very excited about larger fonts and read-to-me capabilities.
As I am sure you know, the only thing nicer than getting a new toy is getting someone you love a new toy that you know they will love.
Helen
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Mom is reading direct from my library via the Content Server to her giant flatscreen TV/monitor. She already knows how to browse, and I put her on FireFox a long time ago, so I walked her through installing EPUBReader. She can increase font size as needed to zoom in and compensate for poor vision. Within a few weeks she'd installed Calibre for it's conversion capabilities and asked me to write some new recipes (you have her to thank for the new builtins: The Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer, plus an updated Nature Magazine).