Why you should (not) upgrade your 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? ...