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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
That is why using an e-ink device can be a better solution. They aren’t back lit, they don’t offer sings and bells of email and messages, and their screens are very similar to paper.
My first Kindle back in 2009 gave reading back to me. I can’t easily read paperbacks, and hard backs are heavy and expensive, and not that much easier to read as far as the font sizes etc. for me. I went from reading maybe one book a month to reading 6-10 per month. And it is wonderful.
Editing to add...as far as distractions from notifications, I know many tablet users who don’t pay attention to the Settings on the devices. Every time you install an app, it wants permission to use notifications. If I allowed all of my apps to do that, my iPhone would be dinging all the time. I’ve always been one to drill down into menus looking at all the options and tweaks. Many folks don’t.
Not to mention users who have their volume set at LOUD, regardless of where they are. At the doctor, church, hospital, grocery store...big fan of MUTE here.
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I've owned several eink kindles over the years since I bought a Kindle 2 back in early 2009 and a DX later that year. And in all fairness the distractions are fewer when I use my eink kindle, but for me the distractions come when I'm reading something and I come across a word, name, or term I'm not familiar with and so I'll check the definition either in the on-board dictionary or wikipedia and when I look up from it ten minutes later, I've lost the original thread. When I do still read on my eink kindle or one of my tablets I generally do so with the wifi off to avoid the temptation of the information rabbit hole, but it doesn't always work. But notifications aren't really an issue, I only have a few and they are infrequent.
The other issue for me is that I don't seem to retain what I'm reading in electronic media as well as I do when I read from paper books. For some reason I seem to get a better grip on the material and I'm more likely to retain more of it for a much longer period of time. Especially since so much of my reading has shifted to non-fiction. When I was reading mostly novels it wasn't as important, but these days I probably read twice as many non-fiction books as I do novels or short stories.
Price isn't much of a factor, as typically the books I buy tend to be more expensive in paper than the kindle version is, but I get better value from paper so the extra expense is worth it to me.