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Originally Posted by Martyd
Ok xendula, I get your point.
Based on what I've read so far I'll go with a Basic Kindle, black only. I got mine at Staples. Load it up, set the font size and start the book. All she will have to operate is the on/off button and page turn. From there I think you can observe how much she is willing to learn. Since the OP is close by, I think they can move things along at the right pace.
I guess what I don't like is a web diagnosis of this person's condition.
Good luck Duckie Tigger. I applaud your efforts.
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I am going to have to take it one day at a time. As for web diagnosis, I have to respectfully disagree with you. A little bit background information is necessary to make an informed decision. My main goal was to find out if the one reader (the basic Kindle) that I thought would be a good choice, is easy enough to use. Easy enough to use for a non-techy older person with certain (medical) limitations. All hell would break lose here had I said that mom is maybe XX amount years worse off than her age would indicate. Everybody is an individual with their own preferences, with their own mental and physical abilities, with their own likes and dislikes. Xendulas idea about putting a mini-how-to on the back of device is, for me at least, a great idea. We already do that for e.g. her washer / dryer, so she can remember which is the one setting that works for everything. I never would have thought about doing that to the Kindle.
Decision is made, the only reader for her will be the basic Kindle in black. Now we are going to slowly find out
if getting an ereader is what
she wants. Only because she said that she really liked it, that it is easy to read, that she wants to start reading again does not mean it is so. I would like to eat healthier, but that does not mean it is going to happen. Who am I to expect that my mom is going to change if she doesn't really want to? At least now I know which device to get her once she says
GO.