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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
(and I am surprised your mother likes paper books--when I was sick recently, and my vision was bad, I just adjusted the font up several sizes, and I kept reading)
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She would benefit from larger fonts. However, she doesn't necessarily like paper books: she dislikes technology. Any technology. The only reason why she has a computer is because she wants to store and organise large amounts of pictures, and she has a smartphone because she wants Whatsapp (or, more particular, NEEDS Whatsapp, because the rest of the family and her friends are on it).
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
...and access becomes more widespread...
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I don't know how it is on other European countries or the US, but in the Netherlands, almost everybody has internet at home. If you have the most basic internet+TV+Phone subscription, the internet part costs around €5 a month. It's slow, granted (something like 128 or 256 kbyte down and 32 kbyte up), but it's still fast enough for all tasks required. You'll just wait longer.
Having a notebook/computer and internet is seen as a primary requirement. Finding a job apart from local manual labor is very hard, maybe even impossible without internet.
If you really don't have internet, you can pick up a second hand notebook for €50, take it to the library, and get free Wifi as long as you want. If even that is not possible, you can reserve a library computer. (I don't know if you're allowed to connect devices to it and run portable software... maybe you can, under supervision.)