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I love my Kindle, but I have a few problems with it.
- I've reached for it sometimes hoping to read a book and found it out of charge. Instant deflate.
- It looks neutral and in that loses the reaction a book cover could arouse. Just looking at books sometimes makes me reach for
- I've reached for it sometimes hoping to read a book and found it out of charge. Instant deflate.
- It looks neutral and in that loses the reaction a book cover could arouse. Just looking at books sometimes makes me reach for
them.
- The choices available within the single device gives me the fidgets. When I pick up a physical book, it's that book I pick up. When I pick up a Kindle, I'm picking up a menu, even if I've got a title in mind to begin with.
- Internet in the device is a distraction. UFF.
- The choices available within the single device gives me the fidgets. When I pick up a physical book, it's that book I pick up. When I pick up a Kindle, I'm picking up a menu, even if I've got a title in mind to begin with.
- Internet in the device is a distraction. UFF.
- It's more expensive than a book, so I'm more reluctant to travel with it or treat it with the easy familiarity of a physical book. I've to be conscious of where it is at all times, and that puts me off carrying it around.
- The sensory cues in books are stronger and more
- The sensory cues in books are stronger and more
particular to individual books and their reading experience (weight, texture, smell, even how much of the book I've read and how much is left), and these are triggers that make me want/not want to read. This experience doesn't meld together as in a Kindle, where the feeling is
linked to the device and not the particular book I'm looking at. That memory tug is rather important to me.
- Flipping through the pages to go back to a passage is WAY more intuitive for me on a physical book even though Kindle has a search function. This is more familiarity, I
- Flipping through the pages to go back to a passage is WAY more intuitive for me on a physical book even though Kindle has a search function. This is more familiarity, I
suppose, and I've found it handy to search by word as well, but I associate various cues to word/passage locations (like how much of the book is left and what was just before or after, and that's an observational skill I value and don't want to lose on the Kindle.
(and so many other reasons, some for and some against) There are SO many reasons!
I'm trying to buy more books on the Kindle though, just to save space. But I'm also trying to be better at giving away physical books I've read to people who might find them interesting. 
In the middle of all this, I'm trying to restart my reading habit. 
In the middle of all this, I'm trying to restart my reading habit.
