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She is Catholic but doesn't read Catholic books (e.g. Scott Hahn). She likes fiction but will read some non-fiction (as in Three Cups of Tea). Mysteries, no thank you. Series are also not her thing. She is 72. Her book club (all those Catholic ladies I grew up with) reads all kinds of wacky titles  .
For the first time in a long while, I can give Mom books for Mother's Day; she is vision-impaired but recently acquired a Kindle...and she loves it. I'd love to be able to give her a good book or two for Mother's Day.
All ideas welcome! I am stumped...I have been reading all about Pope Pius XII and WWII, which I find fascinating - but that's not Mom.
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What about the Kim Valentine books? they're a series but not as in.. you must read in order and need to read all of them for the story to be all tied up. So you could give her just the first one "A Miracle for St. Celcelias".. but I don't know off hand if it's available on Kindle.
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oh and what about Rome Sweet Home, I know you said she doesn't read his books but this one is rather different in that it's the story of their conversion not "explaining"/instructing on something.
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Boy, that's a toughy, Nan.
Could you tell me more about how vision impaired your mom is and why the Kindle is good? My MIL recently suffered a tremendous loss to her vision. She reads the paper slowly with bright lights and a hafty magnifying glass, but I wonder if this wouldn't be something she could enjoy. Someone got her one of those magnifiers that puts stuff on the tv screen really huge, but FIL is cranky and unplugged everything and she hasn't gotten it back out.
Anyway, if this is something fairly low tech (as in, you can just turn it on and its easy to use and doesn't need finagling with something else), I wonder if she might benefit!
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Lindsay,
My mom is oh, so low tech and she can easily use the Kindle 2. (The new Kindle DX is larger, for newspapers and textbooks, I have read.) She had no trouble learning to use it. (She cannot program their TiVo, to compare tech levels.)
My mom has suffered, in effect, mini-strokes in blood vessels that support both optic nerves, which partially killed the optic nerves. (The name is nonarterihtic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, or NAION.) This has caused parts of her fields of view to shut down - basically there are "blank" areas (she says they are grey) in her vision. She can kinda sorta drive locally (although she avoids left turns and only goes places within a couple of miles of home) but reading small print is impossible. If she closes her "good" eye she cannot see enough to put eye makeup on that eye, so her "bad" eye is pretty bad.
She tried audio CDs but really prefers the Kindle. It is small, easy to use, backlit, and gives her access (for a price, of course) of many tens of thousands of books. (They are up to 275,000 books now.)
The best part, though, is that the Kindle 2 allows her to increase the font size so she can read the book herself. The display shows the page of the book as though it were real paper - it's not like downloading a book at all. You can also take notes on each page (say, for a class or Bible study) and the Kindle "home" system at Amazon will remember the notes for you if you accidentally delete them. You can store 1,000 books on the Kindle at a time - great for traveling bookworms!
Disclaimer: I do not work for Amazon, LOL!
HTH!
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The Coffee with Nonna books were a big hit with my MIL and my mom is getting them this year. My eleven year old son loved them, too.
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