Comment by artpi

11 years ago

Whooooa, I have identical situation with my grandparents!

And I solved it by buying them CD - Boombox and modifying the buttons. That way they can switch CD's themselves and they can also buy them. But your project is awesome with the remote uploading.

Burning all those CD's is soooo timeconsuming, but it's worth it - my grandpa has a lot of fun with those books!

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lucb1e  11 years ago

Similar situation here too, but my grandmother sees enough and is able to use a laptop when I prepare a playlist. Inspiring project though, maybe I should take things up a notch (instead of resorting to a hard-to-use laptop) and make something similar.

One issue is that almost all Dutch audio books are abbreviated versions and even of those there are very few available. My grandfather is picky and my grandmother read nearly everything available at the library. The Internet has a bit more than the local library, but still not a lot. I myself just listen to audio books in English, but that's not an option for them.