Notes from my life: I finally bought a Kindle

I bought a Kindle about ten days ago, and finally became a family of e-reader users.

I have resisted e-readers for many years. The reason is that I am a Luddite who loves paper books (is it called Ludite in Chinese?), I have seen my friend’s kindle before, and I feel that it is much worse than paper books, but I recently Found out, that was because I was seeing the wrong kindle model:

Well, the above is just a joke. The model I saw is a little newer than this one, but after a little flipping, I still feel that the reading experience is not very good, the page turning speed is not fast enough, and the screen flickers (my eyes are very poor. , as long as I see the page-turning and flickering screen, my eyes will hurt), although it claims to be the E-ink technology that does not hurt the eyes, the lighting method of the screen also makes me feel like I am looking at the screen, which makes me feel far away from the screen. The reading experience on paper is so much worse that I haven't bought an e-reader for years. When buying Chinese books, although I need to spend about 70% of the book price on shipping, it will only continue like this.

But in recent years, especially this year, I've started to think more and more seriously about e-readers. Although I don’t have an e-reader, I still use e-books more or less. For example, I used my mobile phone to read an entire Miyuki Miyabe’s novel when I was queuing for New Year’s Eve. In the early years, when there were fewer traditional Chinese e-books to choose from, I read them one after another. I bought some e-books that are easy to read . In recent years, there have been more and more types of e-books in Taiwan, and there are also some special e-books like Dumo. In recent years, I have also started to buy e-books occasionally.

In this way, I found that the logic of my not wanting to buy an e-reader has turned the cart before the horse: because I think the e-reader does not read like paper enough, I have never wanted to use it. As a result, I changed to use a mobile phone and an iPad to read e-books, which hurt my eyes, so I began to seriously consider it. Buy an e-reader.

The initial consideration was mainly for the convenience of reading Chinese books. In addition to not having to pay for shipping, I may not need to read some books after I finish reading them, which can save space. In this way, I can choose a lot more Chinese books to read ( Before, I always had to think over and over again whether I really wanted to read this book, whether it was really worth owning, and it was true that some books that made me feel cheated or fooled were shipped all the way from time to time). Because I mainly think about Chinese books, I first considered Moo Ink's own reader (I'm lazy and low-tech, and I prefer a reader that can be completed in one go without converting and sending. I have also watched their readers before. for a while).

But after reading some reader comparisons, I saw someone saying that the reading experience of moo ink is still slightly worse than that of kindle, so I thought, since the reading experience is what I care about most about e-readers, I should solve this problem first.

(Before I saw that Moo ink was printing the latest 13-inch moo ink pro. The functions of taking notes and reading pdfs were quite attractive to me. I often printed out pdfs for reading. In the end, these documents were all scattered, and it was very difficult to read. Difficult to sort out. Because I am a person who likes to be greedy for small things, I will be tempted when I see a special price, and I almost spend 20,000 Taiwan dollars to buy it. Although it may be cool to read a pdf on a 13-inch screen, it is too much to read a book. big)

After reading some reviews, I finally chose Kindle Oasis. Although the price of Oasis is more than double more expensive than Paperwhite, even if the reviews give Oasis a good review, they will question whether these functions are worth the price difference, but Oasis’ extra design is right. For me, it is exactly what I want most:

• Seven-inch screen: Paperwhite is six inches, although there is only one inch difference, but six inches is too small for me (there are six-inch and seven-inch moo-inks)
• Page turning button: I don’t really like turning pages by swiping the screen. I always feel that it doesn’t feel good
• Warm light screen: I don’t really like cold light. Even when I read e-books on my iPhone, I will deliberately turn the paper yellow.

It looks like this:

After entering the Kindle Oasis, I am much more satisfied than I imagined:

• The texture is much better than I imagined, it really feels like reading paper.
• Perhaps because it is Amazon's English-based product after all, the layout, font, and overall reading experience of English books are better than those in Chinese.
• It also feels good in the hand. The screen is ultra-thin and easy to hold. The design of the page-turning button allows lazy people to use only one hand when sitting on the bed and reading.
• The outdoor reading experience is also very good. If it is a paper book, it will be too bright in the sun. The ability to automatically adjust the brightness is the advantage of most readers, and it is not unique to Oasis.
• I'm not someone who takes books to the bath, so I haven't tried to immerse Kindle in water. It is said that it can be immersed in water for an hour without breaking (Kindle Paperwhite can also be used)

What am I going to read on my Kindle:

• The choice of English books that can be bought has also increased: because I originally wanted to buy an e-reader mainly for the needs of Chinese books. The non-fiction category is much higher than the novel (because I am a cheapskate, I used to go to the library to borrow most of these books, fortunately, the library also has most of them)
• As for the part of Chinese books, although it is not as good as Dumo, Blog, and Lotte, Amazon Traditional Chinese Bookstore also has some books that I would like to read, so let’s deal with them first.
• Kindle is a good place to sample a book. Although each publishing house is different, many sample books are quite generous. According to current experience, the sample books of English books are much more generous than Chinese books.
• Cheapskate’s Paradise: I forgot that there is a thing called Project Gutenberg in this world. Although many literary classics are easy to find in paper second-hand bookstores, it will have some books that are hard to find, such as Letters of Ricardo to Malthus is a book that I don’t intend to read from beginning to end, but occasionally I want to pick it up and flip through it
• Right now I'm refraining from grabbing too many good books and cramming them into my Kindle. Only grab the books you want to read and plan to read as much as possible, instead of grabbing all the books that are free and you may want to read one day

Other thoughts:

• For me, the e-reader will be another reading method or carrier besides the paper, not the physical book terminator that replaces the paper
• I have to give up the previous idea that one machine can solve all needs. For example, I almost bought the 13" moo ink pro because I was greedy for the 13-inch big screen + new product discounts. The model suitable for reading pdf and the model suitable for reading are missing It has to be the same one, wait until I actually have to read more pdfs
• I will continue to read and buy paper books: Book of the Dead I think I still like to read on paper, or some non-fiction books that need to be browsed back and forth and flipped through
• Different reading media can be used to do different things and have different functions: For example, I was reading Virginia Woolf’s memoir anthology Moments of Being (paper book) last weekend morning. I want to record the paragraphs in my notebook, but because I like a long list, it takes too long to type or copy. At this time, I suddenly thought of checking if there is any on Amazon, and finally found some including essays, diaries, and letters. A complete set of Woolf's anthology only costs more than one dollar, and I suddenly remembered: Yes, Mrs Woolf's copyright expired not long ago, and it is now a public domain. Of course, I was very happy to buy it. Although I still plan to continue to slowly collect the paper copies of Woolf’s works, the electronic version can be used as a reference. It will be much more convenient for drawing lines and searching

I feel that there are quite a lot of people who use e-readers and read e-books in Matt City, and there are quite a few articles on e-reader comparisons and guides. New e-reader report, please advise ^^