After lusting over the Sony Libre 7 years, ago and doing nothing about it, I finally got an e-book reader. When Amazon released the $79 Kindle 4 in September, I decided it was finally time to get on this bandwagon (and let me give you a spoiler: it’s the place to be). In short, I love it. I checked out Things Fall Apart from the DC Library (using my computer) and the book wireless showed up on my Kindle immediately.
I read this book faster than I have read most books lately, and not just because it would have disappeared from my Kindle in a few weeks. It’s no problem to hold the book in one hand, and to turn pages you barely have to move a muscle, other than one little tiny one in your thumb. I know flipping a paper page is not very difficult, but trust me, it is a worthwhile improvement. It is easy to completely immerse yourself in a book and read for hours on end. I’m not surprised Kindle book sales on Amazon have surpassed paper book sales; this thing makes you want to read.
It’s no iPad; you won’t be watching movies, checking Twitter, or listening to podcasts. You won’t even be reading full color magazines. I didn’t pay the meager $20 more for the Kindle Touch; if I want to enter text I use that little 5-way button at the bottom to hunt and peck around an on-screen keyboard, like in a video game. But all of that is just fine with me. I got this thing to read. It does an impeccable job at that.
