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Originally Posted by elemenoP
How computer literate is your mom? I would think a reader with 3G would be easier because you never have to mess with the computer. Unless you want to do all the loading for her, then go for the Sony with the touchscreen. The touchscreen is the most intuitive way to use a reader, I think. You see it, you touch it. Easy. But my mother would never be able to load books on it.
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I don't know that I agree with that. My mother can't/won't even use email. Her idea of being adventurous on a computer is to play hearts instead of solitaire.
Despite that, she was able to grasp dragging a book in ADE and dropping it on the little icon of her reader. She thinks it's black magic, but she can do it. With a fair amount of training, she also figured out the library website well enough to find something interesting and download it.
I'd think that trying to navigate a library or bookstore on a smaller epaper screen would be just as hard or harder, just for the frustration of make a choice, wait for the flash. Make another choice, wait for the flash. I didn't find the menus of the Nook to be at all intuitive. If I'd had to teach my mother how to navigate that, she'd have given up completely before she ever started. For that matter, can you check out library books using wifi/3G? If not, you'd have to sideload those anyway.