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Mom is still enjoying her new Kobo. She is preparing for that grandest of all Canadian aspirations, the Winter in Florida, and has been bugging me to put some more stuff on the Kobo for her. Now that my sister has a Kindle, our pool of available items has widened considerably since big sis has a California library card (I have a Toronto and Philadelphia one already). So I said something to my mom about how if she really wants more books for Florida, she should speak to her tech-phobic Vancouver sister who certainly will not mind if we use HER library card. And we had the following conversation:

Mom: Why would we want her library card?

Me: Well, each library has its own ebook collection. So if we had her card, we could sign out ebooks from them.

Mom: Can't we get ebooks from our library?

Me: We can. But there library has different ones.

Mom: Oh! Let's do that then. I will speak to her about this.

Me: You realize, last time I had your Kobo, I put like 40 books on it.

Mom: So?

Me: So, it's not going to overwhelm you? Having like 100 books on there?

Mom: Well, you never know what you might want to read. I just like having them. All of them.

Me: Yeah. I have like 2000 ebooks, and Tammy [my sister] was teasing me and she's like 'you'll never read them all'

Mom: Well, never is a long time. You never know. It's better to have them just in case.

Me: That's what I said! I mean, it's not like they're cluttering up my apartment. They don't take up any space.

Mom: Exactly. And you know, you just never know what you might be in the mood for. You'd better just have them all handy...

Ha! I have turned my mother into an ebook hoarder. Next step: teaching her how to load the books herself. It's REALLY not that hard...