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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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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Wheter the teacher is good or not is not important when the pupil just stares at their hands or out of the window because they are technophobic.
My mum hates technic. Period. She had a secretary all her life so she never even learned to handle an electric typewriter. The housekeeper managed the battery changes and the likes. She just refuses to learn the simplest things. And I can't blame her. There is no need for her to surf the internet or record, download anything. She does not like computers or anything that reminds her of a computer and does not want to learn about them.
Also I have not said elderly people can't learn anything new. I just said the way Amazon Kindle Germany works now, is nothing my mom could handle and I assume there a lots of older folks like her. None of her girlfriends would be able to do so at the moment and none of them would care to learn it.
If it comes already loaded with the books it will be ok. But loading something themselves and browsing an online store that says, please go to our American site to order something, will be asking too much.