Best of luck âalpha dadâ! If anyone can wrangle him, you can with your skill set! 
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Mom turned 95 on Saturday 
It was bittersweet as my sister passed around this time last year. But her husband and oldest son were here as was my other sis, her kids and her daughterâs hubby (my nephew-in-law?) and their kids. So 4 generations eating and having a great time; the two grandkids who couldnât make it at least phoned from WV and AZ.
Momâs eyesight has been really declining this last year which makes reading (always a favorite activity of hers) difficult. So my niece bought her a Kindle (which her geeky husband excitedly explained could be set for large font). Guess this week Iâll be teaching mom how to Kindle 
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Ten years ago I had a retinal condition that required an eye patch during resolution - I could barely read. ⌠I was so grateful for my iPad (and Kindle) that could seriously up the font size !! Itâs a game changer. Hope your mom enjoys her Kindle!
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Sheâs been enjoying audio books my sister picks up when she finds them. But the Kindle should open up a much wider choice of titles.
Right now sheâs working on a college lecture course on Benjamin Franklin which, Iâll admit, I am enjoying as well. But Iâm sure Kindle will offer titles that are a bit more light and entertaining.
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Happy Birthday to your mom!
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TIL that my 3 younger kids all knew the actual meanings of ultimate, penultimate, and antepenultimate. Calling out definitions as I asked.
Screw me. Theyâve apparently been listening all these years! They were all like, âDad, come on, this is easy stuffâ.
This only came up because theyâre playing âRock Bandâ together, and the question came up in one of the songs that mis-used the idea of âultimateâ.
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Many public libraries have services tailored for the sight impaired through the Library of Congress. Some reading devices that can be loaned out, too.
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Thereâs the possibility of text-to-speech with Kindle books. If itâs enabled for a particular book, it doesnât require an Audible description.
https://us.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201829850
Thanks @mts We do have a very good local library that I never think of. I will definitely check it out in the new year.
Thanks for the link @Meekah It looks pretty easy to enable.
Just had to remove the first member from one of my otherwise friendly and respectful food groups on Facebook. The level of douchebaggery and assholery demonstrated by people online never ceases to amaze me 
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I teach a little Accessibility Law to my IT students. Amazon has a dodgy history with this technology. Hope it works; message me if it doesnât and Iâll see what I can do.
Thanks @Meekah that is very generous of you!
Waiting in the doctors office and read this from the âBulwer-Lytton Fiction Contestâ, which challenges entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels.
I have the giggles now, the chemical engineer in me loves this entry below 
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Susan was a walking thermal reactor, with an electron-beam smile, a megawatt body and an amazing fuel assembly, radiating heat at a lethal dose; and though Jack knew that any achievable fusion of his charged particles and her spark chamber would have a very short half-life and would leave him a decaying, spent fuel rod, he also knew in his core that no amount of coolant could quench the chain reaction currently taking place in his overheated neutrinos.
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I think I speak for a lot of people when I sayâŚew.
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I hope that was the winner . . . it is truly awful.
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It was a âdishonorable mentionâ in the purple prose category. So didnât win that category. I just love the cleverness of how many technical terms the author fit into that sentence.
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I worry about what the author is engineering.
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The ups and downs of some social media sites.
I was thankful I was cut off of FacebookâŚ
