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Is an Ipod easy to use?
cruciverbiete
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I've never owned one, and I'm thinking of buying one for my grand-maman this Christmas. She has trouble seeing in her left eye, and the right has been paralyzed for three years (no vision). She has the ears of a hawk though, and she loves to read. Hence, e-books and the delights thereof.
Thing is, she is 0 technosavvy. I'll take care of loading the files and setting them up with Itunes, but she would have to be able to select the files on the player herself, since I'm not always at their place.
-How easy are they to use? I've handled one, and honestly I think it could be a little tricky.
-Alternative players?
Thing is, she is 0 technosavvy. I'll take care of loading the files and setting them up with Itunes, but she would have to be able to select the files on the player herself, since I'm not always at their place.
-How easy are they to use? I've handled one, and honestly I think it could be a little tricky.
-Alternative players?
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Are you sure this is a good gift for her? If she's not techsavy, reading might become a chore rather than an enjoyment. I'd get her some sort of book club subscription or a giftcard at Borders.
Not that that necessarily makes it easy to use...
I'm wondering about navigation, specifically. I've looked on ebay for huuuuuge ones, but everything is pretty much designed to be as small as possible.
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I went and looked at some models, and the larger models seem to offer a reasonable interface to work with, i.e. seems simple to navigate.
Ipod classic looks quite big. Yea?
I'll give them a wizz, thanks for the idea.
From a conceptual standpoint, that would be much easier for her to understand: "This disc-thing is 'Pride and Prejudice,' I put it in here, press the big button, and it plays. When I want to listen to a different book, I just put a different disc-thing in." CD players are inherently more user-friendly than MP3 players because they don't need to worry about scrolling through recursive folders of artist/album/track/genre/etc, and if she has any level of familiarity with music CDs - or hell, even records - she'll be able to easily apply that knowledge. CD players are physically easier to use, too. No weird scroll wheels, no touchpads, just the same tactile play/pause/fastforward/rewind buttons she will have been using for the past 30 years.
There's no need to spend $X00 on a shiny new iPod Touch when something like a CD player would be more comfortable for her to use, both intellectually and physically. Plus, assuming she has some sort of stereo system, giving her audiobooks on CD would also give her the option to listen to them on that, so she wouldn't need to wear headphones (which a lot of people find uncomfortable over long periods of time).