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Ebooks for Seniors

By now, you must have guessed that I am a book lover. Yes, a bona fide bookworm, if you must call it that. As a kid, I used to scour newspapers for comic strips since I didn’t know how to read back then. As soon as I started to read, I often end up at libraries, borrowing books of any kind just to get me through the weekend. I started with big, easy-to-read letters then as I get older, the smaller the letters get. When my eyes started to fail, I got to a point when I bought a magnifying glass—small, of course—and that little clip-on book light so that the one sharing my bed could get his goodnight’s sleep while I read the lights away. Me, never had a problem falling asleep, books lull me to dreamland and it never failed, not even once.

One thing that bothers me though is the amount of dollars I spent on books and the unbelievable amount of space it commands of my home. I hate to see them go so naturally, they tend to accumulate overtime and take almost half of my home. That’s when the better half usually steps in and take them all to donation areas without me knowing it—and he’s been doing it since the day we got married.

So you could just imagine the joy I felt upon discovering ebooks and ebook readers. Let’s just say, it solved all my problems with paper books. No more magnifying glasses over reading glasses, no more clip-on lights and no more cluttering inside my home! Best of all, no partner nagging me to cleanup or else he will throw me out of the house! I still buy paper books every now and then since addiction is pretty much hard to treat but I must say—and say proudly—ebooks improved my reading habits tremendously.

So why switch to ebooks? Here are the benefits of ebooks vs. paper books:

•    Special discounts for seniors like me!
•    Very environment-friendly since it doesn’t require cutting of trees just to give you a decent printed paper.
•    Easier to keep. You can just buy a pen drive and store your ebook collection there, then have it uploaded and saved online for backups. Have someone to teach you if you are not too familiar with that.
•    Possibilities are endless. It’s so disappointing to visit a bookstore only to find that the book you are looking for is not available. Ebooks never run out of copies.
•    Ebooks are cheaper. Classic ones can even be legally downloaded from reputable sites.
•    Ebooks are very flexible. Their font sizes can be changed and their background colors adjusted. They can be customized according to your reading convenie