"Follow this investment advice, and you will be a rich man or woman.
It has nothing to do with telecommunications, or computer systems, or wireless networks, or any of the other technological industries that for so long we have been told are the gateways to fabulous wealth....
It's not glamorous; no one ever talks about it. It wouldn't seem to be a place where you should put your money and expect it to multiply.
Until you think about it.
The industry is the large-print book business....
Yes, it has come to this -- for millions of us, as we traverse the peak of life (that's a nice euphemism for over the hill), books as they are published now increasingly appear as if the type is small and faint, even when we are wearing our glasses. Our instinct is to become angry at the publisher. But the publisher hasn't done anything wrong....
The really depressing thing about this is that -- after my first wave of grateful giddiness at how easy it was to read the large-print book -- something dawned on me:
We've come full circle.
We've seen this kind of big, dark print before:
In the Dick and Jane books. When we were first learning to read, in 1st and 2nd grade.
Look. See. Run, Spot.
We're back where we started. Oh, my.
When's recess?" [Chicago Tribune, registration required]
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