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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Anyway, these things have adjustable font-size and built-in text-to-speech, which seem like they would be great for people with vision difficulties who'd like to read the latest bestsellers without having to wait for the special Large Print edition to be made and bought (if it ever does get so).
Considering that every suburban branch I've ever been in has had a fairly large-ish Large Print section mostly filled with older stuff (lots of Danielle Steel, the occasional classic, Ye Olde Formerly Hot Now Forgotten Bestseller of Yesteryear), I can see how even having a few Kindles/Kobos/Sonys actually works out to being a cheap and cost-effective augmentation of that section
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Excellent points. Large print books are horribly expensive (something like $40 for a book that costs $5 in a regular-print paperback). Also, ereaders are small and lightweight; one of the problems older people can have with LP books is that they're so big & heavy, which makes them hard to hold. With an ereader, you can have large print in light weight.
As for the text-to-speech, that could replace (or supplement) the audiobook collection; again, audiobooks are prohibitively expensive. Two or three books-on-CD being replaced with one Sony reader, you've got your money back.