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Originally Posted by HarryT
Your mother sounds like exactly the sort of person who'd benefit from a Kindle, with its ability to buy books directly on the reader without needing to worry about a PC at all.
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That works with a Kobo e-reader and the Kobobooks store, as well. My Cybook also came "linked" to the Thalia.de e-book store (not that I ever shopped there). In either case, though, this locks the customer into the vendor's ecosystem and removes the element of freedom (of choice).
Admittedly, this may not be an issue for a more casual (or unconcerned?) reader, but still, if I could get my mother to accept e-readers (she's in her late sixties and sadly resilient, preferring paper books, if she reads at all), I'd probably handle it exactly like Sweetpea described.