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Pamela
Lessing
The First Week With My New PC
A Very Basic Guide for Older Adults and Everyone Who Wants to Get
Connected”
This book was written for the authors
84-year-old mother and for everyone else who wants to get connected” to a PC but has been too afraid or too embarrassed to try.
The First Week with My New Computer is a humorous, but practical and simple step-by-step guide that gives new
computer owners (no matter how old or young) all the information they
need to do the basic tasks for which they bought a computer in the first
placesending and receiving e-mails, using the Internet, playing games
and CDs, writing correspondence and keeping records.
From the very first
chapter, Out of the Box,” to the final section, Troubleshooting
and Questions,” it gives clear, easy-to-follow instructions while
patiently understanding and explaining (without any condescension or assumption
of prior knowledge) the concerns and difficulties many people have with
this technology. The First Week with My New Computer has been field-tested
with people ranging from 27 to 84 years of ageall of whom found it to
be The Answer!” to their fears of even touching a computer or admitting
that they dont know how to use one and their honest desire to get connected.”
Pamela Lessing has had a
very diverse career as a librarian, art consultant, and member of advisory
boards of numerous non-profits. She is the author of Chinese Snuff
Bottles from the Pamela R. Lessing Friedman Collection and The
First Week with My New iMac. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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