I remember those! When I was very small, I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, and went to Cerebral Palsy Center, Union NJ from about 1 yr old to 5 yrs old, at which point, I was able to go to regular school. Memories are fuzzy of that time period - but I do remember the big books the older kids had (the ones with severe CP or other handicaps)- they were huge! The books were huge, the print was huge, and in some of them, the pages were also thick. [this was in the 1970's]. One of the best "finds" for textbooks (or in my case, huge russian dictionaries and a big cardboard-covered standard glossy 2 inch thick textbook), is this: A bookholder. You can make one with a coathanger (I have plans for that somwhere), but if you have access to an "OfficeMax" in the USA, I know for certain that they carry this item. It cost a little over $3.00, and holds a giant book open, with little rubber-coated metal 'fingers' that stick up and hold the pages open. The pages are not hard to turn either. This was a find fo
r me, because I'm always breaking the binding of books, trying to hold it in one hand, or two hands, or flat on a table. Sometimes I get frustrated enough to tear the pages out a chapter at a time. [I already do this with inexpensive paperbacks, and toss out each chapter when it's done - a clutter removing tip!] It probably already exists - but I'm still waiting for the day of good electronic books. Just a tablet that could take a diskette or cdrom, (standard mac and pc would be nice), could read all sorts of file formats - and had only a few big buttons -- turn page left, turn page right, front of book, back of book. Nothing more. I love reading books, and when they're bulky, they're my nemesis! Of course, I could be fundamentally lazy, which is probably at the base of all of my complaints, both for myself, and for lazy ppl everywhere :) -Kenneth
