[carandol]

My dad is in his eighties, and his sight has deteriorated to the point where he can only read really big text. He's never used a computer, and his hands are a bit shaky, so using a mouse is out. He can't afford a modern e-book reader, and I'm not sure how he'd do with the little buttons anyway. But my plan is this:

I've got an old laptop, which runs Linux just fine. What I'd like to do is set it up purely as an e-book reader. The ideas would be that it would boot with the file manager maximised and no toolbars showing, with a list of book files in big print. (This would be in KDE). He could use the cursor keys to navigate to the file he wants to read, then just press enter. I'd probably paint the keys he needs to use in bright colours so he could see them easier. Once in the book, he could navigate up and down with the Page Up and Page Down keys.

The thing I'm not sure about is software. I want something(s) that can read plain text, HTML, mobipocket and possibly PDF. The important thing would be that it would remember the last place he'd got to in the book, and not start at the beginning again the next time he loaded the file.

Anyone any ideas for any Linux program or programs that could do that?