Customer Reviews

Internet and E-mail for Seniors with Windows XP: For Senior Citizens Who Want to Start Using the Internet (Computer Books for Seniors series)

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Excellent text with screenshots easy to follow.
Not a deep coverage, but certainly gets seniors going.
We use it as a recommended text for our seniors courses.

This is a good and simple book, easy to read and understand for seniors or any beginners for that manner. I'd recommend any of Addo Stuur books on computers. They really help me.

This is a good self-paced training manual, although akward to handle. The step-by-step procedures are fine for XP and Vista, and easy to understand. Just the Internet...Just the facts...simple (few right clicks offered.)
I suggest teaching the E-Mail chapters BEFORE the SEARCH chapters, for that is what the students want.
Poor quality print and paper makes the screen shots a little hard to read, but the procedure is good.

I'm teaching a class at the local UMaine Senior college. This book is BY FAR the best text for introducing seniors to the computer. The authors have thought thru the issues of elder learning and provided workable solutions for most of the problems many seniors have in learning tech subjects. The "Dummies" series book for seniors has much more info, but my seniors are overwhelmed by too much info. Stuur's book has the right amount. It may be a little too basic for people who have a good collection of basic skills already, but this comes with the territory. Some in my class have NEVER sat in front of a computer before. If we skip the absolute basics they'll be left behind (again!) The book is a great tool for the classroom. And when the students get home they have all the info in front of them again. Great for those that have short term memory problems.

Although I have been surfing the Internet for a while, I found lots of practical hints and tips, such as learning how to do better Internet searches with this handy book.

Says my mother in law, who has tried classes and a few other books. This was her favorite.

I have been taking several courses at our technical college and have not had time to use this book yet. It looks like it will be very helpful but I do not know as yet.

This book is easy to use and understand. it is very straightforward and my elderly students can follow it without problems.

I bought this book for a Senior Computer class and answered only about 1/3 the question I came up with in class. But, opened up Pandora's box of questions, ideas, information for me to learn more about using a computer as a senior. Thanks I had fun learning a new topic at 60.

This is a very simple book. It helped my mother-in-law, who knew nothing about computers.