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Originally Posted by LuvReadin
Surprises me - surely the home's staff would need a wifi connection? Even if it meant her going down every so often to the office, I'm sure there would be a way round it.
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Well I asked the carer, but I contacted the home in case she'd got the wrong end of the stick and they confirmed that there's no WiFi.
I agree with you - I think there ought to be WiFi throughout the building,
or the folks that run it shouldhelp out with that - but it doesn't sound like it quite works that way I'm afraid. There appears to be very strict delineation about what they provide/don't, and what they will/won't provide. Regardless of that though, she could not physically get up out of bed and go down to an office, but would be reliant on the next carer doing it. Ideally I want to give her full control so she can say what books she has and when. Of course I *could*| sign her up to a £20 a month ISP contract, but without a PC that's money down the drain, especially when 3G is bundled in with the Kindle.
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Well, no, not if the library is going to be a main source of books - in that case, the Kindle is out, and the T1 or the Kobo would be a better choice. The OP's friend can still buy books from Amazon (UK) with these.
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You raise a good point about the library. I'd heard library access is an option, but didn't realise the Kindle was restricted on library access. Why's that - a choice by Amazon or just format incompatibility, or something else? In my naivety I'd always imagined her buying(or being bought) current books, but you may well be right - perhaps she would prefer the cheaper library option. I need to check this out as well.
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Yes, almost certainly - to buy books in the UK, you really only have the choice of the Kindle, Kobo or T1, and if you go for the Kindle, you can't access the library, so it depends what's the most important to your friend. If she mainly buys books, then a Kindle might be the best choice, but if she uses the library a lot (and I suspect, being bed-bound, she probably does), then the Kobo or T1 might be better.
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That's exactly the kind of info I was hoping to get on here - saying what's available on what device, so thank you. I liked the look of the Kobo but no-one recommended it, and I don't think it has 3G. I also thought Kobo was created by Borders bookshop, and thought they'd gone out of business for some reason, so had written it off early on. Looks like that's wrong.
Thanks LuvReadin,
David.