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Originally Posted by hoboslobobabe
Have you thought about how your mother will get ahold of books and how she can get them on her device?
I am just curious, because I have never considered 84 year people as interested in Ereaders especially getting used to them andwhat comes with it (using a PC, buying books online etc.).
Indeed a Kindle might be pretty neat for that because you can buy the books and get it on your Ereader without a PC.
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My MIL was having trouble seeing the text in books and was not able to find many she wanted to read in large type. This is why we first thought of getting her an eReader. She says it has helped her quite a bit, the biggest problem is that she has to turn pages more often.
The Kindle was the best choice in this case because she was already buying most of her books from Amazon. She's able to use her computer for many things and she's pretty sharp, but she didn't know what a USB port was or where to find it on her computer, even if she could get at all the way down there on the floor.
She uses the 3G to get her books, easy as can be for her.