A kindle has finally allowed me to stop reading several books per week.
For many years previously I’ve had: open bookshelves around the apartment, near 1000 books, some unread; whenever I walk by, a 30% chance to randomly take down a book, start reading, and come back to the real world several hours later, having missed work/appointment/dinner/sleeptime/chance to sit down.
Lots of procrastination, although it has given me a lot of broad, shallow knowledge on many interesting subjects.
Today: no printed books left, except for small cache of <100 important ones hidden on upper shelf of closet, which don’t have ebook versions; one kindle. Because the Kindle is so bad at arranging and finding books (seriously, no folder support?) it takes around a minute to open a book not read recently. This time-cost alone is enough to prevent almost all of my reading-procrastination. I still read for fun during time pre-set aside for the purpose.
A kindle has finally allowed me to stop reading several books per week.
For many years previously I’ve had: open bookshelves around the apartment, near 1000 books, some unread; whenever I walk by, a 30% chance to randomly take down a book, start reading, and come back to the real world several hours later, having missed work/appointment/dinner/sleeptime/chance to sit down.
Lots of procrastination, although it has given me a lot of broad, shallow knowledge on many interesting subjects.
Today: no printed books left, except for small cache of <100 important ones hidden on upper shelf of closet, which don’t have ebook versions; one kindle. Because the Kindle is so bad at arranging and finding books (seriously, no folder support?) it takes around a minute to open a book not read recently. This time-cost alone is enough to prevent almost all of my reading-procrastination. I still read for fun during time pre-set aside for the purpose.