Kindle 12+

After all these years hearing about Kindle & how good it was, but I never thought of using it, until I come across it by accident. Being from the old school of thought, “I need the book in my hands”, how wrong was I. Yes the feel of a book still excites me, that feeling you get at the end of the final chapter, when the bond of a book is drawing to a close for the last time. However, being able to access my current read from virtually anywhere has excited me also. Ok you don’t have this piece of art in your hands, but if you change your mindset a little and open up to this great technology you will still feel the love and that bond. It’s the story and what’s behind the story is really what you bonding with right. To have that deep connection with your story, it doesn’t really matter how you read it, as long as you still get what’s intended and for me, knowledge, expansion of ones mind, love and compassion of the world, the people and things in it. kindle gives me more opportunity than ever before to experience this this great value of life.

I have always loved books, Along the way as I got beyond middle age I found it more difficult to read. The font sizes in most books and magazines were too small and I needed a good light to see to read. Eventually it got too hard and I stopped reading. Some years passed before I discovered the iPad and the Kindle app. How fantastic to be able get pretty much any book, set the font to my liking together with the right illumination for me and read again. After years without, I went through 60+ books in my first year back and now have a library of hundreds! They are all always available and I do not need to remember where I left off, the app does that for me. I cannot recommend the Kindle highly enough for anyone who finds the pleasure of reading losing its lure due to the passage of time. Get back to your younger self and rediscover the manic of a great book.

I got my kindle as a gift from family just over two months ago and haven’t put it down since. It makes reading so much more enjoyable, and gives my little adhd brain goals for how long until the next chapter, how long left in the book, etc. Which makes it so much easier for me to persevere when I get into reading slumps and so forth. The reading streak is also something that helps with that, just getting on and reading a chapter or two and adding to that streak keeps the book fresh in my mind, absolutely love the reading insights feature on the app!

However, I feel like it could be tweaked to have a bit more depth of info like some other (manual) apps and reading trackers have. For instance, how long spent reading each day, what book you read that day, how many days it took to finish each book or hours total etc.

Still one of the best gifts i’ve ever been given!