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Benedict Arnold

Do e-Books hasten dementia?

Mrs Didge has been reading e-Books lately but today is reading a paperback. She said that a couple of times she reached the end of a page and swiped it to go to the next page. Yesterday she held her finger on a word she didn't know to get the dictionary meaning.

Has she lost the plot? Does she need professional help? What do you recommend?

Posted - March 14, 2017
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  • Mrs. D is wise.  I keep a paper pad and write down unfamiliar words to look up later or I get a dictionary and look them up right then.  For the swiping she is just messin' with you.  Mrs. D is a reader, I salute that.

    Plus Mr. D I purchased your "Mistress..." novel today.
      March 14, 2017 8:09 PM MDT
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  • Thanks, Whistle. I hope you enjoy it. 

    It's interesting that she's doing things like this, though. She can no longer change gears in a car (problems with her hand) so we traded in our old Toyota on another, same model. It's automatic. I'm the one with troubles there. After a lifetime spent driving manual cars I often find my hand dropping down to the gear stick ready to make a change.
      March 14, 2017 8:30 PM MDT
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  • 2960
    I forget.
      March 14, 2017 8:10 PM MDT
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  • Forget what?
      March 14, 2017 8:11 PM MDT
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  • 2960
    What?
      March 14, 2017 8:12 PM MDT
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  • Where you saying something?
      March 14, 2017 8:13 PM MDT
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  • 2960
    Where are my keys?
      March 14, 2017 8:14 PM MDT
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  • Check the litter box.
      March 14, 2017 8:15 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    I dunno;))
      March 14, 2017 8:18 PM MDT
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  • Love it. :) 
      March 14, 2017 8:27 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    Thanks Didge I did too;))
      March 14, 2017 9:34 PM MDT
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  • Nah, she just got into some e book based habits
      March 14, 2017 8:55 PM MDT
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  • Sounds right but I can't let her off that easy.
      March 14, 2017 10:59 PM MDT
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