kindle

 There was a time when most printed books were in accessible to me really, I say most as there were large print ones. I have a different level of eye vision to most people so need a different level of print. This all changed with the inventio of E readers like kindle which make most books accessible now as long as they are on kindle many books are not

Kindle books are also cheaper than printed book which helps.  Many don't like kindle as they are not holding a real  book which most people grow up doing, of course I ignore this and enjoy the benefits of the kindle.

There is also audible which is handy, I was having this concersation before going into the operation theatre the other week. The staff in the hospital seem really ignorant of eyesight issues which was very dissappointing, you kind of expect this kind of ignorance in normal society but not in a hospital I suppose but the hospital is part of that normal society I guess so I should not have been surprised but I was dissappointed I have been meaning to chat to someone about it and I might at some point

Technology is great thing it is far ahead of society's attitude to issues with vision.  I wish there had been kindle around when I was at university but then again as I say some books are not on kindle but there might have been some I might have been able to make use of, I was totally knackered at the end of the course due to having had to work a lot harder to make things somewhat accessible I only kept going as I loved the course and had supportive friends.

I needed to read articles on the course i was on and that was an effort today google assistant would have read them to me and there is OCR technology which converts text to speech the degree I did would have been a completely different experience today to what it was then, which was only 20 years ago things change so fast

Listening to stuff which is read out is a lot better with a human voice but the electronic voice is better than nothing and would have save a lot so strain on my eyes. I was not able to read to the level I wanted to at uni and the new technology would have helped but maybe the length of the course should have been longer for me so that I could read the into more depth, I did pass but maybe I would have liked to be spending more time doing the course

I keep getting this recurring nightmare that I have not finished the course, its probably to do with that I grew up thinking that I would never achieve anything due to my vision issues 

I am not sure why I am making a blog post about this today really but why not I guess

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