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Originally Posted by Joykins
Incidentally, I tried placing my Kindle non-touch (the one with the 5-way controller) on a table and used my wrist bone to turn on wifi and open a book. I managed it with a few mistakes, and if you take it slow you can correct the inevitable mistakes. So part of how it would work would depend on how much fine motor control she has over the placement of her wrist bone, and whether the repetitive motion would become painful. The page-turn buttons were very easy with my wrist bone, and so were the directional arrows on the 5-way controller. The select button and the other buttons were too small/recessed to manage really easily that way, but (with some mistakes) it was possible. The power button on the non-touch is pretty much impossible to manage that way. Does she use a lunch tray or stand? If the carer can adjust an existing stand, place the kindle on it, turn it on, and (if needed; once per book) open the book for your friend, your friend might be able to handle page turns on her own, and ask for assistance again when the kindle needs to be removed.
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First off - thank you very much for doing that test with your wrists - that's a great idea and gives me some indication at least. Very logical of you and much appreciated.
The carer said she was considering a stylus, as an engineer had mentioned the possibility to her, but no idea what that would entail - some kind of wrist strap I guess. Unfortunately I imagine you're probably spot on about needing someone to open the reader, select a book, then she just does page turns. I *hope* somehow she can do all of it but it sounds doubtful.
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I'm assuming that if you get the Kindle Keyboard (having 3g seems paramount) that the page turn buttons are similarly sized (and that your friend would find them as easy to operate with her wrist bone, since it's size and discreteness of location that seems to make the most difference). If other people can manage the tasks that are not done very often (registration with an Amazon account; book acquisition, power on, and navigating to and opening books), it may be there would be very little else that would need to be done special.
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Yes I think 3G is important in this case, at least to try anyway. Otherwise she'd be too reliant on other people and, knowing her, she wouldn't want to make a fuss or have people running back and forth for her, so she'd just go without instead. Anyway somebody said there are page turn buttons on either side of the Kindle Keyboard as well so hopefully very similar scenario.
I reckon I'll end up doing book aquisition if I can coax her into calling me when she wants new books.
Thanks a lot Joykins,
David.