Comments on: Senescence, death and e-books: Could an e-library help? http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/senescence-death-and-e-books/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:28:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jim http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/senescence-death-and-e-books/comment-page-1/#comment-1148013 Jim Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:11:32 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=31247#comment-1148013 I myself am a stage 4C cancer patient and I spent six weeks of my life in daily radiation therapy. EEvery day while waiting for treatment, I sufffered through boredom reading ancient magazines that people had dropped off. It really would have been nice to have eBook readers available for use. In fact, that is where I saw and touched my first Kindle, in use by a caregiver of a fellow patient who would spend an hour or more a day in the waiting room. Recently I purchased my own Kindle just for cases such as this. The interminable waits for the perpetually late doctors don't seem as bad with my Kindle. And my days on disability are that much less boring now that I'm out of the workforce for the first time in my life. I agree that blocking text-to-speeech does a great disservice to those with late sttage illness. If I were too weak to hold up my Kindle, it would be great to be still challenged intellectually by a good book without troubling my caregivers to read to me for hours on end and would spare the much higher expense of purchasing audiobooks that would serve their purpose for a limited time. I myself am a stage 4C cancer patient and I spent six weeks of my life in daily radiation therapy. EEvery day while waiting for treatment, I sufffered through boredom reading ancient magazines that people had dropped off. It really would have been nice to have eBook readers available for use. In fact, that is where I saw and touched my first Kindle, in use by a caregiver of a fellow patient who would spend an hour or more a day in the waiting room. Recently I purchased my own Kindle just for cases such as this. The interminable waits for the perpetually late doctors don’t seem as bad with my Kindle. And my days on disability are that much less boring now that I’m out of the workforce for the first time in my life.

I agree that blocking text-to-speeech does a great disservice to those with late sttage illness. If I were too weak to hold up my Kindle, it would be great to be still challenged intellectually by a good book without troubling my caregivers to read to me for hours on end and would spare the much higher expense of purchasing audiobooks that would serve their purpose for a limited time.

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