The joy of ebooks

An ebook reading device

We were delighted to read this eloquent letter, which was published in a national newspaper on 21 January:


"...I welcome the Kindle with enthusiasm. And with relief: in my mid-80s, after five eye operations, reading had become more of a pain than a pleasure. The sheer joy of finding a lightweight device that I could hold easily in my crablike hands, and that would obligingly enlarge the typeface to a level rendering superfluous any magnifying glass in my collection, was overwhelming."

Colin Cooper, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex


The Kindle is one of a range of devices now available on the market, which you can use for reading books (ebooks). Apple's iPad is another. To find out more about what ebooks could offer you and to what different devices can (and can't) do visit our ebook website

Last updated: 20 September 2012

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