The digital minefield

Learning is never that easy more so when one is in ones twilight years so here I am trying to get my head around the iPad Air...yes I actually decided to catapult myself into the new age digital world after finding to my dismay that people no longer went to bookstores and browsed books or for that matter even bought books. Deeply disappointed as I was with the bookstores which in my heydays was a place to hang out in and read and exchange notes,I was told in no uncertain terms that today the world belonged to kindle and iPad and tablets and all manner of digital technology hence the new acquisition. Unfortunately no one told me about the minefield that is the digital world. For the uninitiated let me explain that it's all about aps. I am guessing this is what in our day passed for applications. These are things that give one access to all manner of data (read books,music etc) and while a lot of them are free ,most of them are only gateway s to a better world. Get there and while one gloats over the abundance of books and music,one discovers as I did that all of it has to be paid for,or at least all the ones I want. I feel like a child in a candy store being offered all the goddies only to have it taken away . Right so then having no choice I decide to buy a book and then my troubles begin. First off one needs a credit card (which I have). Now we need a password and all manner do security levels to pass through. For the life of me I can't remember password so to boggle my mind with so many of them is in my opinion making my life more difficult however you may convince me of making it easier. Having a morbid fear do using online payment options means I am back to square one no books no music but on a device that demands that I have all of it. Now I stumble along and with trial and error find a few books which wonder of wonders actually download without asking me a hundred questions so thinking that like some modern day hacker I may have cracked a code I sit down to read. The books in page turning gripping and soon I am lost to it. End of chapter one and eager to find what's to come I find to my horror that once again I was subjected to child in candy store syndrome . I was allowed to read a sample and now need to buy the book if I want more. It obviously can't be as difficult as I make it out to be so I am giving me some time to master the technology and in the meanwhile the nephews (who are both pretty clued up on technology )are being put to good use. It is their responsibility to help me master this new age so as time goes by I Amy just become a geek and hold my own th he best of them but doe now I am a bit confused.