I’m a voracious reader. On average I read about 50–60 books a year (and that number may be conservative). Up until I got my iPad I had a library room in my home overflowing with books. Shortly after I got my iPad I stopped buying paper books and went ebook-only. About two years ago I finished replacing the majority of my paper books with electronic copies and donated most of my paper books. The only ones left were either books that I could not get an electronic copy of, were signed by the author (or had a note from my father in them), or were coffee-table books.
So as a power reader, I wanted to outline how I read these days, and why my Kindle still matters.
Generally speaking, my purchasing strategy is to avoid device lock-in. It’s hard to avoid any sort of lock-in, so I’m…
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There’s a stack of e-readers sitting on the coffee table in my apartment. From bottom to top: A broken Nook, an old Kindle Touch, a first-generation Kindle Paperwhite and, as of this week, a review unit of the Kindle Voyage — Amazon’s latest e-reader, which starts at a whopping $199.
I read about two books a week, but the e-readers don’t get a lot of love around here. When I went to turn on the Kindle Touch and Kindle Paperwhite to compare them to the Kindle Voyage, I discovered that both had run out of battery at some point, and I had to recharge them. The broken Nook belonged to my husband, and when it finally stopped working he decided to start reading on his iPad instead of upgrading to one of the other e-readers we already owned.
Sad stack o’ readers. Photo by Laura Owen
This isn’t about…
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At the BookShelf 
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