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our experience: Kobo Touch has dark, large fonts and is quite lightweight. easy for the over 80 year old relative with vision and arthritic hand issues! Use boils down to visualizing 3 vertical columns. Touch the left column, go back a page, touch the right one, go forward a page. touch the mid one, options pop up (contents. change fonts and layouts. etc) there is a brief 'welcome to kobo' item that walked her through it. first couple days, she revisited the walkthrough with me to get her confidence up. now its easy. a few days and she's finished a few books and going strong.
since vision makes the home page - 5 most recent covers - a bit difficult, we advise utilizing the library>shortlist for the current books your relative will use. this entails choosing which of the many loaded books she wants to read by placing finger on the heart to its left. (when touching, will see a dark highlight, so know it will slowly -- relative to computer -- act on the touch. any books with filled in hearts will appear on the shortlist. so instead of frustration viewing homepage pics, put finger on top left - library> shortlist. can sort shortlist view by author, title, or most recent, and most importantly, it isn't cover art, but title/author in font of relatives choosing.
forgot to mention: initial setup using computer will upgrade firmware and fonts and sizes will increase from original release. in case you are reading reviews telling you there are few fonts -- not any more
good luck with whatever you choose!
Last edited by nose-in-a-book; 08-24-2011 at 11:32 PM.
Reason: forgot to mention
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