Maybe some of you have the same "problem" a well loved person, that get's older and looses more and more the abilities he/she used to have.
A short while ago I made my granny extremly happy. More or less by coincidance. She is 93 and lives in a riterement residence. Can hardly walk anymore, hears very bad and her eyes are bad too.
When I visit her, she loves it, if I read her something from books or magazines. A while ago I wanted to show her my new "toy" my PRS 700. First she said, she is to old for that kind of modern stuff. So we fooled around with it and I showed her, that you can change the size of the letters.
Suddenly her face lighted up and she said, that she can read that. So she spend at first a while reading in size xl. Of course not much on the screen than
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I showed her how to flip the pages and it worked very good. Basicly it is very easy to continue reading a book. You just have to switch the reader on on the top. Tip with your finger in the upper left corner and voila, here you are, being exactly on the page where you stopped reading.
Flipping pages is no problem for her old fingers, she has only a little problem switching the device or the lights on, but there is always someone there, that could help.
She realy enjoyed reading again by herself! I left the reader with her and when I came the next day, she was reading. I took it home with me and loaded some classic books on it.
Of course she cannot change books. At least not now. But we visit her a lot and when ever she wants to start a new book, she can tell me. She loves the "modern" thing very much, since it brings back a little quality in life for her.
Of course I have the problem now, that my reader stays very often in the retirement residence. So we will probably get one for her. Guess the PRS 700 is the only one, that comes up for that job, since it is the only one with a touchscreen.
Every other reader has to small buttons. Until now, she gets along with the reader very well. And she has something to brag around in the retirement residence. She is the star of the show there
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Hope I don't have to order a bunch of PRS 700 readers now in the States, since you cannot buy them over here.
But for all who have old folks, just try it!