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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad was reading 10 books a week easily in his 70s.  In his 90s he doesn’t read many novels.  Reads news online, etc.  I think four factors:
1) mental slipping makes it harder to follow long involved plots.  Stuff like Grisham or short magazine articles much easier to follow.
2) eyes slipping.  Even at 50, it’s a pain to read novels that are heavy to hold and I need glasses.  Even with kindle it’s just a pain to magnify and have to keep moving the page down.  My grandmother basically lost all sight to read later in life and gave up reading even her trashy romance novels.
3) novels depressing.  When you’re 80 years old who wants to read a bunch of depressing stuff?  Seems like every novel I read has a suicide, rape, tragic death, etc.  even at 50, I need some better news.
4) harder to get to bookstore/library as you get older.  And not all seniors have a kindle or know how to work it. 
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I agree with this list, specifically for older seniors like 80+ versus younger ones at 60+.[/quote]

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