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twowheels · 11-04-2011, 07:08 PM

Sunday will be my 1st Kindle birthday, so I've been reflecting on my experiences.

I'm not new to e-reading, but this has been my first experience with eInk. If you look just under my avatar you'll see that in the past I've read on a variety of different devices. Prior to the Kindle my favorite was the grayscale Palm III, which I still sometimes miss. I'd given it up and gone through a few generations of backlit LCD screens, and now I never want to read on backlit LCD again (though that's what I'm doing at this very moment!

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Some thoughts:

I'm getting used to going back to page based reading. I really liked the automatic scrolling on the Palm... I'd set the reading rate and just sit and read as the words went by. Page based reading felt like a step backwards at first, but it'll do. I'm curious if the Jetbook would be able to recreate the scrolling experience.
I love the Kindle form factor. A bit smaller would be nice, but I don't want to give up the keyboard to get it. I've carried it almost everywhere with me for the last year. I'd go to a smaller screen, but ONLY if I got the scrolling based reading back.
eInk is AWESOME! :-) Second best would be non backlit LCD screens.
Amazon's integration/cloud/user experience is slick... I've been very happy with their customer service and otherwise...

So... how has it affected my reading?

Well... first, I read MUCH more. I didn't manage the 100 books that some here are working on for 2011, but I did manage over 30 and I've averaged more than 25 paperback equivalent pages per day (been grabbing the numbers from Amazon's trade paperback descriptions for my reading log), for about 9300 pages (I should stack up the equivalent number of pages in pbooks and take a picture). That might not seem like much to many of you, but for working more than 40 hrs per week and spending my weekends busy as can be, that's quite an accomplishment to me! My TBR list started shrinking, but now is growing faster than I can keep up!

As for content... I used to read almost exclusively non-fiction content related to my profession [and life-long love]. I still read a lot of that, though more and more from the experts' blogs as books are out of date before they're even printed. :-) I've found that I read a lot more fiction than I ever did before. I've read a lot more science fiction, which I've always loved, I've read a few popular books, such as the Millennium series and the Hunger Games (at the prodding of my daughter), but also some of the classics that I somehow missed while I school...

Overall I'm loving the Kindle experience, and hope that year two brings even more pages per day. :-)

As a side note... since buying my Kindle I've bought more for family members and to give away and have personally purchased 8 Kindles and 1 non Kindle ebook reader...in one year!

11-04-2011, 07:08 PM	#1
twowheels Wizard Posts: 1,853 Karma: 13432974 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Kobo Clara HD, iPad Pro 10", iPhone 15 Pro, Boox Note Max	My Kindle birthday is approaching... some thoughts Sunday will be my 1st Kindle birthday, so I've been reflecting on my experiences. I'm not new to e-reading, but this has been my first experience with eInk. If you look just under my avatar you'll see that in the past I've read on a variety of different devices. Prior to the Kindle my favorite was the grayscale Palm III, which I still sometimes miss. I'd given it up and gone through a few generations of backlit LCD screens, and now I never want to read on backlit LCD again (though that's what I'm doing at this very moment! ) Some thoughts: I'm getting used to going back to page based reading. I really liked the automatic scrolling on the Palm... I'd set the reading rate and just sit and read as the words went by. Page based reading felt like a step backwards at first, but it'll do. I'm curious if the Jetbook would be able to recreate the scrolling experience. I love the Kindle form factor. A bit smaller would be nice, but I don't want to give up the keyboard to get it. I've carried it almost everywhere with me for the last year. I'd go to a smaller screen, but ONLY if I got the scrolling based reading back. eInk is AWESOME! :-) Second best would be non backlit LCD screens. Amazon's integration/cloud/user experience is slick... I've been very happy with their customer service and otherwise... So... how has it affected my reading? Well... first, I read MUCH more. I didn't manage the 100 books that some here are working on for 2011, but I did manage over 30 and I've averaged more than 25 paperback equivalent pages per day (been grabbing the numbers from Amazon's trade paperback descriptions for my reading log), for about 9300 pages (I should stack up the equivalent number of pages in pbooks and take a picture). That might not seem like much to many of you, but for working more than 40 hrs per week and spending my weekends busy as can be, that's quite an accomplishment to me! My TBR list started shrinking, but now is growing faster than I can keep up! As for content... I used to read almost exclusively non-fiction content related to my profession [and life-long love]. I still read a lot of that, though more and more from the experts' blogs as books are out of date before they're even printed. :-) I've found that I read a lot more fiction than I ever did before. I've read a lot more science fiction, which I've always loved, I've read a few popular books, such as the Millennium series and the Hunger Games (at the prodding of my daughter), but also some of the classics that I somehow missed while I school... Overall I'm loving the Kindle experience, and hope that year two brings even more pages per day. :-) As a side note... since buying my Kindle I've bought more for family members and to give away and have personally purchased 8 Kindles and 1 non Kindle ebook reader...in one year! Last edited by twowheels; 11-04-2011 at 07:11 PM.