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Old 11-29-2011, 07:57 AM   #20
Sundae
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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Mum knows her way around the basics of a computer - she emails, checks certain sites and used a complicated mainframe when in the Police.

But like me, if she feels out of her depth, her first reaction is frustration and rejection.
I've learned to work through to an extent (as Dani knows, it's still there) but she is confused and hates it.

Stevo will register it for her (he has Wifi at home and knows Dad's Amazon account and email and password etc)
She won't have Wi-Fi in the house though.
She is SO wary of internet theft and nothing I can say would change her mind.
Ste might end up being the source of purchase for all her books!
Still, she buys >10 a year (for holidays - the rest come from the library or are lent between friends) so it's not a big ask.

It just surprised me. As you say, Wolf, it's there in the smallprint, but not made a big deal of in the advertising.

Then again, if I had access to new books I could keep for 99p I'd read a lot more.
That's 7-9 books for the price of one. And I could halve the bulk in my bedroom...
Maybe I should dissuade her from this venture and just pinch it for myself?
No! Like a serpent at her breast! Evil!
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