E-Reader

I love e-readers. I was an early adopter of the good old dorky-looking Kindle 3 (aka Kindle Keyboard), some 15 years ago, and I read many a book on it or its successors. A few years later, I upgraded to Kindle Paperwhite 3 (a 2015 model), and got stuck with it for a while. I had a phase where I shunned ebooks and started buying everything in paper, and then waffled back and forth a few more times. During one of my ebook-positive phases sometime early this year, a few things coincided: The battery in the Paperwhite was starting to show signs of wear, Amazon started making some anti-consumer moves, and I realized the Kindle was perhaps the only device that was not chargeable via USB-C. Time for an upgrade? ...

The mission is simple: spend less time looking at my phone. I’ve made several adjustments to my information diet and to how I consume content online, but many of these changes made me even more tethered to my phone. So I set out to read more on my e-reader instead of constantly staring at my phone. Put the phone down First, a brief detour into my browsing and reading habits. I subscribe to a lot of feeds (check out my blogroll!) and going through my RSS reader gives me a similar dopamine hit to scrolling on social media - except I’m mostly learning something new rather than just being entertained. But it also means I spend a lot of time staring at my phone and reading articles on it, which is definitely not a good way to read anything, and it does not feel great either. Besides, you’re one notification away from being pulled out of your reading. ...