Thinking about my Mum today as it would have been her 81st birthday. I remembered my favourite book when I was a little girl.
I’ve got a collection of Ladybird Books. #geek. Ones that I remembered from when I was a child.
This is my favourite one. (Photo above. The Discontented Pony) I was so young though I couldn’t remember the story. The illustrations I remember vividly, as I suppose my Mum would have read it to me and I would have only looked at the pictures. I was obsessed with horses when I was a child. So loved this book.
I did used to like reading a proper book. Usually autobiographies, historical, crime or about space. Don’t really like fiction books at all. I would rather learn something real. I’ve still got some books I loved from my teenage years. Well worn but just didn’t have the heart to give them away.
So when it was too hard to read a book, book. I started to read them on my mobile phone. At least you can adjust the font. It became increasingly annoying though as you didn’t get many words to the page. You were just flicking it all the time.
Now I have a 10.1 inch screen tablet. This is loads better and I enjoy reading again for a little while until my eyes sort of say “Right, we’ve had enough now”
Either through pain developing around the sockets, a headache, or just everything becomes extremely blurry with double vision. All of a sudden. Just like that.
So this is how I read at the moment.
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So many books, so little time! My grandmother introduced me to whodunnits, and for the first time I was reading for pleasure. Mostly I use my reader from the giant bookseller in the sky. Plus strong reading glasses with tons of prism and a good AR coating. And a small, titanium frame that can withstand my going to sleep! Thanks for your great explanations. ~ George
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Hey George. It’s lovely finding a book you can get into and escape for a while. What screen reader do you have please? I’m abit bamboozled by them all at the moment. Thanks for reading.
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Mostly I use large print on a Kindle Paperwhite. I occasionally use an iPad or Kindle Fire, but they get heavy. For audiobooks, I use my aging iPhone. Like you, the going is slow because there is relatively little on a page. I can also use Siri/Voiceover, but I’m not good with it.
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I’m so glad you have found a way to read. I’ve never tried the voice option on my app. I will have to give it a go. Thank you ☺
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