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Old 04-26-2011, 02:55 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by Poppaea View Post
That said have a look at the newly opened Amazon Kindle store Germany and let's imagine I buy a reader for my mom, who is 71 now. To buy a book you have to download it from Amazon.com. All the "Kindle is sooo easy to use" is gone with that additional step. My mom wouldn't be able to do so and the keyboard would give here the dreaded "computer" feeling.
My mom is in her 80s and she has a Sony Reader and really enjoys using it. But she'd be able to handle a Kindle just fine. The idea of wireless is not new to her. Ever since I was able to get her off dial-up, she'd been wireless with her laptop. So really, it's not a difficult concept to teach someone who is elderly as long as the teacher is a good teacher. Sure, a lot of elderly people can be set in their way, but that does not mean they are unable to learn something new.
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