Books for Baby Boomers (and the joy of large type)
Newsweek has an article about the Baby Boomer generation and their books. It starts with these words….
When Harper-Collins recently rolled out its new line of large-print books aimed at the aging boomer market, I was riled. “I don’t need no stinkin’ large print,” I grumbled. Then I picked up the first book in the new format, Michael Crichton’s “Next,” and I had to admit that—well, it was a little easier on the eyes.
I recently read my first large type book - Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein - and I was also impressed by how large print made the reading experience more comfortable for me. I’m 38 so I’m not really a Boomer, which I believe is someone born between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s when the Vietnam War kicked into gear. I wear glasses for driving but never for reading books, but large print really worked well for me.
AbeBooks.com has around 250,000 listings offering books with large type if you insert “large type” into the key word search box.
March 12th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Hey, I don’t need no stinkin’ large print. Well, actually, I do. I am 48 and my reading eyesight has gone downhill. But, still, I ain’t gonna read large print. No way. Maybe when I am 77.