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badgoodDeb · 12-22-2018, 01:52 PM

My 87 year old mother enjoys a kindle - the Voyage now, but a simple touch kindle before. However, I keep it registered to my account, and keep the airplane mode off. When I get a book she might like, I push it to her. Once or twice she has requested a book, so I look for it on a desktop and push it to her kindle.

So, she knows nothing about buying books, or about getting wifi set up (she has a wifi, managed by my brother; I put the wifi password into the kindle, plus my amazon account details).

Reading on a kindle, yes. The rest of it -- best if there is a helper to set it up, or later to push books to it.

12-22-2018, 01:52 PM	#20
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,555 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	My 87 year old mother enjoys a kindle - the Voyage now, but a simple touch kindle before. However, I keep it registered to my account, and keep the airplane mode off. When I get a book she might like, I push it to her. Once or twice she has requested a book, so I look for it on a desktop and push it to her kindle. So, she knows nothing about buying books, or about getting wifi set up (she has a wifi, managed by my brother; I put the wifi password into the kindle, plus my amazon account details). Reading on a kindle, yes. The rest of it -- best if there is a helper to set it up, or later to push books to it.