[rwillmer]

Originally Posted by Carnyx

Thanks for the reply Rachel,

I was thinking the same thing about touchscreen being the best option for such a user, but I've been surprised how many people think it's not better for arthritic users, due to it being fiddly hitting the right area of the screen, easy to trigger things unintentionally when moving the device, and the lack of tactile feedback. There's been a couple of touchscreen advocates though, so I'll be very interested to see what you think of it after he's given it a try.

I have an Kindle Keyboard, my original Sony, and an iPad, which is what I read ebooks on, so I thought for a long time about what would work for him. I came to the conclusion that he just wouldn't be able to cope with buttons; fine for me, but for him, he wouldn't be able to see them, plus even if he could, he wouldn't have the physical capability to accurately press down on a button.

So touchscreen very quickly became the only option.

I'm very curious to see how it works for him.

I thought about ipads, but came to the idea that they're too expensive and heavy; and then also the battery life problem kicks in, so in my opinion, E-Ink is the only option.

Do you mind me asking if your father-in-law has WiFi access, or is someone on hand to do the downloading of books on his behalf?

Ah yes, now here's the other wrinkle.

My father-in-law is in a care home 500 miles away; we don't know whether the home has WiFi there, and we don't want to stress any of the local family with the responsibility of needing to download the books.

So I've come up with a no-tech solution. If it works, then we'll buy another Kobo Touch and tie it to the same account.

So the plan is that when he gets near the end of the book, one of the local family will tell us and I'll load the next set of new books onto the 2nd ereader, and post it down with a pre-paid envelope so the lovely people in the care home can send back the other one.

So I can handle all the technical problems of buying the books and loading them, and all the local family need to do is make sure the thing is charged up (which I've made easier by labelling up the reader with large print labels saying "On/Off", "Power", "Connect" on the front of the ereader with appropriate labels.

I hope it works for him. If not, I'll have to think of something else...

Rachel