99 Year Old Woman Finds It Easy to Use the iPad [Video]

A 99 year old Lake Oswego woman has found the joy of reading again thanks to the iPad.

Glaucoma made it difficult for Virginia Campbell to read. "I found recently that I wasn't even able to read large-print library books because there wasn't enough contrast between the print and the page," Campbell said. "I could write them all right, but I couldn't read what I wrote."


Luckily an iPad given to her by her family is making things easier. "The type jumps out at me," she said. "Now I can read again and it's just opened up the world."

Campbell's son-in-law posted a video of her using the iPad on YouTube which has since received about 38,000 views.

The iPad even inspired Campbell to write a poem:

To this technology-ninny it's clear
In my compromised 100th year,
That to read and to write
Are again within sight
Of this Apple iPad pioneer.


"You're never too old to take advantage of something that will help you," Campbell said.