Large print books at AbeBooks.com
We are pleased to announce that we now have a large print section on AbeBooks.com. It’s designed to help visitors find large print books more easily. The thinking behind this move is that we’re not getting any younger. Our typical customer comes from the bookloving Baby Boomer generation and eyesight problems are commonplace within this group of people. We just wanted to make life a bit easier for them.
I’m 39 and wear glasses to watch TV and drive, and read PowerPoint presentations in meetings at work. I’ve only read one large print book, Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein, and I actually found the whole experience very positive. It was much easier on my eyes.
Our research showed lots of people used the library as a resource for large print books but they were dismayed by the lack of choice. “Nothing but romance” was how one person put it. Hopefully, we can help change that.
Also a big thanks to our friends at Random House’s large print imprint who supplied four large print books for a contest. The books up for grabs are Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach, Bill Bryson’s A Short History Of Nearly Everything, Barack Obama’s Dreams Of My Father and The View From Mount Joy by Lorna Landvik.
If you are starting have trouble reading text on your computer screen, we recommend that you increase your browser’s text size by selecting “text size” and “increase font” under the “view” menu, or by pressing “control” and “+” (”apple key” and “+” on a Mac).
