I love my Kindle, it has hundreds of books on it, and I am now buying my aged mother one after she accosted mine during a visit over Thanksgiving. She has to wear reading glasses to read, but not with the bigger fonts on the Kindle. She fell in love with it immediately.

So since I'm buying it, she can download all of the titles I've already purchased for free, plus I can now get some new titles as she reads and adds to hers.

I read the Kindle set on the size "3" font, and occassionaly make it larger if tired.........

I also recommend the Kindle to my senior clients.

The DOWNSIDES to Kindle are:

> The large page turning buttons are easy to accidentally hit, as mentioned above, and on more than one occasion I have fallen asleep with it in my hands only to wake up and realize I've been turning pages.
> You can't organize your titles into folders, and if you download free material (widely avalaible) and send it to your Kindle, your "author" becomes your e-mail address.
> They have a rudimentary web browser that I tried a few times but it is slower than dial up. They also used to have an "Ask Kindle" feature that I really like that they have discontinued- it was great for getting info on the book you were reading.
> The e-mail feature is one-way, you can recieve but not send.

The UPSIDES are:

> It uses the same eInk technology as the Sony reader, very natural looking pages but you need light- either "land based" or a booklight. I bought a cheap booklight at Walgreen's and it has worked fine for those times I needed one. I have had backlit e-readers and they make my eyes tired too quickly, just like a computer screen.
> I've had it over a year, the battery still lasts over a week. I flew to Florida and back, read it on the plane both ways, and all week long in the hotel, about an hour per night, without re-charging.
> The built in dictionary is great- you're reading a page, there is an arcane word, it looks it up at your request.
> You can "try before you buy"- send yourself a chapter and if you like it buy the book later.
> The price of most books is less than a paperback and it (in theory) lasts forever.
> I used to pack a half a dozen books for a trip, now I have this one compact unit with hundreds of readily available titles for any mood I'm in, including a couple of preparedness texts and the Ship's Captain Medical PDF mentioned in another post on this forum.

So a thumbs up from me!