After cataract surgery, the quality of your vision fluctuates for several months. During this time, you need to exercise your eyes by reading without glasses for brief periods of time. The adjustable type on Kindle is perfect for this, as you can easily scale the size of the letters up and down depending on the quality of your vision at the time or if you are temporarily using reading glasses.
Kindles use e-ink technology that makes the Kindle typeface and page background very restful to the eyes. Most people appreciate this standardization, especially if they are experiencing eye strain.
A Kindle also is the same weight whether you read “War and Peace” or “A Christmas Carol.” That is just a bonus!
You will not have to do hand holding if you give a Kindle to someone who did not grow up with computers. The Kindle is a very easy device to use and Amazon has superb customer support for the Kindle.
Recently a new series of Kindles has been introduced with touch screens, rather than keyboards. (The new Kindle Fire is a tablet that does not use e-ink and is for the casual reader.) The previous series of Kindles had a keyboard rather than a touch screen, but they also had buttons to page through as you read. With the new Kindles, you touch the screen. Some people prefer the older model with buttons. Because the Kindle is not backlit, the leather cover with a light that runs off the main Kindle battery is a must have accessory, but it is currently only available for the older model, Kindle Keyboard 3G.
So when it comes to Kindle, you might say I am an old-fashioned kind of gal. I prefer the older model and I prefer the older classic authors, like Austen and Dickens and Conrad and some you may not have heard of before. Their work is often available free for Kindle.
Beginning with the new year, I will be doing book reviews every week on free out of copyright books written before 1924. So get your Kindle and get ready!
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