When I was healthy I used to love to read. Favourite genres were biography, history and general non-fiction. As my eyesight got worse, and particularly since the stroke, abstaining has just become something I live with.
Recently I have found some books that I want to read, so have been making an effort. so last week I downloaded Kindle to my phone, and started reading a couple of books that I had before the stroke. Just going on screen size, my phone is not my favourite. But yesterday I downloaded their PC app and resumed a book about the Spanish Civil War. And the good news is that I was able to accomplish it. It is harder and slow-going, but I made progress.
As a youngster, I though that reading was the key to all sorts of knowledge, and it gave me such enjoyment. Even that bit older now, I’m rediscovering that joy again.
Mister Bump 
I’m 63 now and have noticed that my eyes have deteriorated slightly over the past 2 or 3 years. Hey ho, I can enlarge the print on my Kindle, thank goodness.
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It’s good that you can get on with larger text. I found on Kindles that, as the text got larger, so I saw fewer words on the page. As somebody who was used to reading a whole line, and it just being absorbed, I found that infuriating, too. That’s mainly why I went audio in the end. But for some things, paper is still king – I got one of thise enormous Oxford dictionaries (the one printed on tissue paper in 3pt font) a while back and for that, I had to go onto eBay and also buy a magnifying glass!
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I’m up to slightly larger text and bolder too. Not too bad at the moment.
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It’s kinda swcary how, as we get older, all these things start failing on us, isn’t it? 🤣
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Happens to us all, and so far nobody’s found a cure for ageing. I wish somebody would though before anything else falls off…
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There’s an idea for a poem in there somewhere!
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Perhaps I’ll have a go…
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https://mrbump.uk/2020/09/12/in-all-the-wrong-places/ 🤣
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Lol!
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