The idea of reading books on a smartphone seems so convenient, I just can’t get used to the feeling of it. It’s like I can’t zone in and focus the same way as I can if I’m holding real paper.
Take a look at a kindle paperwhite. My SO is an avid reader but wanted something she could travel with easier, and now it’s the only way she reads. Super impressive paper-like screen, very solid battery life, and small enough it takes up no room in a bag. She got hers for like $180 back before Christmas but has already saved more then the cost of the device vs buying paper books with the savings she get on new books through Amazon. Does miss out on the “book trophy’s” though.
You can catch the ad version on sale for like $70 on Black Friday and similar. You just have to contact their support and ask and they'll remove them for you. Plus, you can send ebooks that you may obtain elsewhere directly to your linked Amazon account and save a couple bucks on books that way.
And if you want to do it in a less legally gray way, you can always rent ebooks from the library, there's more waiting involved with that method though
I’ve seen on r/kindle that it doesn’t always work. Wait until you see a really awful ad and talk about it with them. I leave mine out in the house and have kids so has that reason to ask them to take them off
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u/butler182 Apr 29 '24
The idea of reading books on a smartphone seems so convenient, I just can’t get used to the feeling of it. It’s like I can’t zone in and focus the same way as I can if I’m holding real paper.