Life with a Kindle: Two months on
I’d been admiring the Amazon Kindle for some time now and had long wanted a more practical solution for all the reading I do in order to keep my awareness up to date. When January came I finally took the plunge and ordered one.
Now I’m not a big novel reader and I haven’t spent much time reading actual books on the Kindle as yet. Its main purpose in my life is to allow me to read articles without distraction. Already I have read over 100 articles that I just wouldn’t have got round to reading without it.
My process is fairly simple now. Every intriguing article that I discover throughout the day gets saved to my Instapaper account. Later in the day I turn on my Kindle, open the web browser and navigate to the Instapaper website then download a .mobi version of all my saved articles. I can then browse them at my leisure.
I know some people reading this are likely to point out the fact that Instapaper offer an automated service for doing this however I am yet to get it to work so in the mean time this is what I shall be doing.
I have read some books on the Kindle, most notably the A book apart series and have really enjoyed the experience but I don’t think I’m likely to purchase any Kindle-edition books just yet (I like to own things, not just license them).
All in all I feel the Kindle has enriched my life as it has allowed me to read more and consequently learn more because it offers a great reading experience. Many people have criticised the Kindles lack of features and compared it to the iPad but those people are missing the point. A Kindle isn’t for email, twitter or web browsing. A Kindle is for reading and for that purpose it is perfect.