iPad Makes Reading Accessible, Inspires Limerick Poetry

May 3rd, 2010 Posted in Electronic Publishing, Other News

It may be little dealt with in all the buzz surrounding the launch of the iPad and the emergence of e-books, but it’s a very big deal for a good many people: digital content is making reading accessible to lots of people for whom paper books are off-limits due to physical disability.

In this Youtube video (below), 99-year-old Virginia Campbell, who used to love reading and writing before glaucoma clouded her sight, taps away at her first computer: an iPad.

According to Campbell’s daughter, the device has “changed her life”; the e-reader, which allows readers to increase text size and screen brightness, has permitted the nonagenarian to delve back into her favorite pastimes: reading books and writing poetry, like this limerick tribute to Apple’s latest piece of technology:

To this technology-ninny it’s clear
In my compromised 100th year,
That to read and to write
Are again within sight
Of this Apple iPad pioneer.