It began with me supporting the underdog. My history with e-readers is a colourful one. It’s a subject that’s dear to me, and I wanted to do it justice, which is why this article has been months in the making. How We Got HereĪ while back, I wrote about my switch from Pocket to Instapaper.īesides being one of the more popular entries on the site, it sparked a fair bit of feedback about reading in general and what my stance was on the major e-reading options on the market. Chris Ziegler called it the duck-billed platypus of the gadget world.īut this kind of thinking is missing the point.Į-readers don’t have to justify their existence compared to tablets because all they’re designed to do is replace paper books.
We’re used to judging devices by how many things they can do compare an e-reader to a tablet, and you will find it wanting. How many people do you know who bought an e-reader and boasted about the many more books they’re reading now than they used to? Or perhaps you are that person I know I was.Į-readers are unusually limited by today’s standards, but they’re less confusing than people make them out to be.
And that’s where true reading has found refuge. Reading on our own terms - unassailed by notifications and ads and pop-ups and pings - is difficult on the internet, and on the many devices that connect us to it. I’m grateful.Īnd I understand the difficulty. That puts you in the shrinking percentage of people who have gone past the headline and devoted additional minutes of your time to engaging with this article. But I fear the internet may be a hostile environment for reading as we used to know it.įor example, you’re still here. Another possibility is that it’s simply headed to a more connected place, like most other things in our culture. One possibility is that it’s headed for extinction, but I’m more optimistic than that. Where Reading WentĪs someone who grew up reading, I’m left with a deep-seated curiosity about where this past-time, obsession - whatever it is to you - is going. It has since become something of an acquired taste.
KINDLE VS KOBO FULL
It required our full attention, this mind meal, and was tremendously nourishing. Before technology became a prism splitting our mind’s eye into competing beams of attention, we used to feed our imagination with words on a page.
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