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May 9th, 2008

E-books for the elderly vs. large-print books: A weighty question

By David Rothman

image “The questions posed run a wide gamut, including patron complaints about the weight of books to why do large print titles go out of print so quickly, to criteria used for weeding large print to where to shelve them…” - From Library Journal summary of large-print seminar.

image Related: Older adults and e-books—and how E could be the new ‘large print’  and E-books as the new large ‘print’: An eye doctor speaks out. In the first piece, librarian Isabelle Fetherston noted that “large-print books tend to be too heavy and unwieldy for many older people with arthritis to hold.”

Library image: CC-licensed photo from Michael K. Pate showing large-print collection from Laurens County, S.C., library.

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