After some careful indoctrination, I got my book-loving but tech-phobic mother on board with the idea of an ebook reader and nurtured her tepid interest to the point where she accepted a Kobo Reader as a mother's day/retirement gift from me. She spent about half an hour getting comfortable with using the buttons and performing basic navigation tasks while I was there, and I got ADE all set up for her so she could download books if she wanted to. But she seems unreasonably terrified of the software. After finally declaring that she 'loves' the reader and that it is adorable, she said 'well, at least I don't have to worry about buying the books for it.' Oh? 'Well, I just figure that if there are any books I want, I will tell you and you will buy them for me and put them on the reader when you come over and I'll just pay you back for them.'
I really don't think ADE is that hard, and certainly the Kobo is about as bare-bones and simplistic as they come. I don't really know how to convince her that the Adobe software is not out to get her and that buying an ebook herself is an attainable goal. If it were not for the price, I would have gotten her a Kindle and then she would never need to worry about the computer at all, but she saw my Kindle and the keyboard scared her away. Plus the Kobo is smaller and lighter and cuter.
So...next steps?
