Recent statistics show that senior citizens in Sweden do not read e-books to any great extent. The aim of this study is to find out more about why that is by examining the seniors view about e-books while at the same time highlighting the digital exclusion many elderly citizens are part of. Qualitative interviews with five participants aged 65+ were conducted, and the respondents' answers were examined and analyzed based on theories of useability and user experience. The study shows that the elderly's interest in e-books is very limited as they prefer to read printed books. Some of the reasons for this are that older people do not like to read long texts on a digital screen and that they do not feel sufficiently competent to set-up an account and start to download e-books on their own. Based on the theories used in this thesis, this analysis indicate that printed books meet the requirements for both useability and user experience to a greater extent than e-books. Among other things, the printed books offer the seniors a pleasant time whilst digital reading was considered to affect the user experience in a negative way, hence lowering the useability. The study also show that the respondents' digital knowledge and skills vary and that help from family and friends were often required when dealing with internet tasks. The experience of inability was one of the reasons why the elderly felt like they neither dared nor wanted to learn more about digital technology in general, and e-books in particular.