Large Print Books as I have lost part of my vision

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Large Print Books as I have lost part of my vision

1DangerVK
Aug 24, 7:08 am

Dear LT comrades, I was hospitalized for five days in March due to a concussion and still am missing the middle part of my vision, a scotoma. So large print books have all of a sudden become really important! Can any one point me towards a searching method or large print catalogue? At this time I am stuck with Amazon searching and its filters don’t work very well. I have increased the font size on my reading devices but paper is missed. In particular am looking for books on Buddhism in large print. Thank you and have a wonderful day πŸ“šπŸ™πŸ€—πŸ€—

2MarthaJeanne
Aug 24, 7:46 am

I use Magnifying lenses that are 15x and have built in lights. I have three so that there is always at least one charged up.

Not perfect, but I can read most books.

3sarahemmm
Edited: Aug 24, 12:04 pm

Lending libraries are generally very good at identifying (and having) large print books. Unfortunately non-fiction is much harder to find in large print. The suggestion of a magnifier with built in lights will probably be a good move - my mother has macular degeneration and uses a page-sized one and a smaller hand-held. Both are 3x magnification. She also swears by her special daylight equivalent lamp.

You might find a move to ebooks, at least temporarily, is a good answer. Amazon seems to have a number of kindle books when I searched 'buddhism', so perhaps try one to see? You can make changes to fore and background colours, as well as text size.

ETA: Abebooks has a large print search option, though mainly fiction, as do several other booksellers.

4hailelib
Aug 24, 9:34 am

You might check out Thorndike Press as they do large print books. Mostly novels though.

5krazy4katz
Edited: Aug 24, 10:05 am

I did a search on Amazon for "large print, Buddhism" and came up with the following page:
https://www.amazon.com/Buddhism-Large-Print-Religion-Spirituality/s?rh=n%3A12279...
Only 2 of the books say "large print edition" so I am not sure.
I hope this helps. Best wishes, k4k

6DangerVK
Aug 26, 7:46 am

>2 MarthaJeanne: This is awesome! Can you send me a link?

7DangerVK
Aug 26, 7:48 am

>3 sarahemmm: Thank you! I read ebooks on my iphone and now my font is like 72 but also like the paper. Thank you again for everything and the AbeBooks recommendation πŸ™

8DangerVK
Aug 26, 7:49 am

>5 krazy4katz: Thank you 4k4!

9MarthaJeanne
Edited: Aug 26, 8:04 am

>6 DangerVK: If you think an Austrian chain would be useful to you.

Be careful with Amazon. I ordered one that was supposed to be 30x. It was at best 3x.

10DangerVK
Aug 26, 9:26 am

>9 MarthaJeanne: I shall be careful, thank you again. If you have an Austrian model that you like I will google it πŸ™