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Hello,

My mother-in-law is 96 and loves to read (doesn’t care much for TV). She’s been getting books delivered from the library but when we asked her about that this week, she said her vision is getting to where it’s difficult to read. Large print books aside (given their limited selection) and maybe getting her reading RX updated, we’re wondering if there would be an eReader that would work for her.

She’s a complete technophobe. Doesn’t know how to turn on a computer and doesn’t want to know. She does use a cell phone (dumb phone) and she’s cognitively very sharp. We live 1200 miles away from her and I have a fair number of books on our Calibre server (some mobi from Kindle purchases and other are ePub).

Obviously, I can convert any ePub to mobi or vice versa to get books into a compatible format for the chosen eReader. But I don’t want to loads tons of books on at once or she’ll be overwhelmed. Do all eReaders allow someone to add books from any computer/tablet signed into that eReader’s account? I seem to remember being able to load mobi/azw3 books onto a Kindle account (I was using the Kindle app at the time) even though they weren’t purchased directly from Amazon.

I need something that she can just turn on, see a few books, touch the book, and pick up where she left off. Then, every few weeks (or whatever timeframe), I can remove what she’s read and add a couple of new options.

Is something like this even feasible or would it be likely that she’d get “lost” somewhere in the user interface? If that happens, she won’t try to use it again. So, ease of use is the most important feature.

It just makes me sad that the one thing she had left that she can do and enjoy (reading) she’s not able to do now and that leaves her just kinda sitting around doing nothing. That’s no kind of life.

Any info/advice would be amazing! Thanks in advance!