Thank you. Glad to see it is a sticky message because I know I will forget and have to look many times.
Hi Barb! I love the logo/icon for the group! It's finally sunny again here in GR after a few days of rain/wind!
Gini
I would love to read Still Alice and Those Who Save Us but I can't find them in large print. I prefer the large print books as they read faster, my eyes don't get as tired & the print is just so much better for me all around. I found out that Still Alice is not out in large print.....I feel that if they are going to print a book, they should offer it to everyone. They make tapes out of books (I can't get into just sitting & listening) so why not print off the large print also. With all the baby boomers around, I'm sure they would go.
I belong to Doubleday Large Print Book Club but would prefer to get my books from the library to save some dollars. Well, I'll get off my soapbox for now....
Thank you to whomever selected 'Those Who Save Us' I really enjoyed reading the book. Something different which I might not have selected on my own. Loved the characters and the storyline.
Pame1a, if you look down the thread aways, you'll find our discussion thread for Those Who Save Us, just in case you haven't read that yet. It's interesting.
A word about Large print books etc: Many people prefer the large print version and the audio books too, for vision reasons. What I have noticed is that they come out after the hardback original publication, then the softback and the other versions. It is a waiting game. They want to milk the profits from the original printing, apparently. Sales from that probably determine how much they will invest in the costs of producing the other versions. There is currently a much smaller market for the alternative styles of presentation, but as the baby boomers move through the population demographics, that market might expand, at least for a few decades. Then, in the words of Anne LaMott, "All New People".... LOL
Yesterday I picked up a reserve for UNACCUSTOMED EARTH by Jhumpa Lahiri. It arrived in large print which I didn't expect. As the book is over 500 pages it'll be great to take to gym for reading on the machines. I wasn't aware that the large print books are more costly. This one in trade paper back is listed at $25.
posted by rapa
6 months ago
I'm brand new to the group, and I wanted to comment on the discussion about large print. I worked for the Library for the Blind for almost 20 years, and purchased all of the large print for my library. Not only is it more expensive, the publishers print a lot of genre (mystery, western, romance) books and not a general catalog because their perception is that that is what older readers -- the primary consumers of large print -- read. It used to take almost a year for a book to appAskear in large print after it was published in regular print, but that time frame has shortened. Here are a couple of suggestions: if you can affort it, buy a Kindle, the Amazon e-reader. It's pricey, but you then have the option of increasing the type size as large as you need it on any book that you buy. Book costs are lower than large print books. On average, you'll pay $9.99 for popular fiction, a few dollars more for non-fiction for which there is less demand. If that doesn't help you, a basic full page magnifier, available at most Walgreens, may help you read regular print books more easily. Many libraries also have "reading machines" for low vision people which allow you to put a book under a closed circuit camera and read it on a screen in front of you. These are very expensive (thousands) so if your local library doesn't have one, and you are interested in seeing one added, it might be a fund-raising project for you and any service group with which you are involved to donate to your library.
