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It’s a better book than actual books for 98+% of books I’ve read on it. Taking as many books as I want onto an airplane for a business trip is great. My kids a

It’s a better book than actual books for 98+% of books I’ve read on it. Taking as many books as I want onto an airplane for a business trip is great. My kids and wife read theirs literally daily. I’d have to look up how old they are, but the newest one is 2 years old and I think mine is around 10 (it’s a first gen paper white). The e-ink display updates fast enough to not distract me from reading. The battery lasts multiple business trips, even on my very old unit. I’m surprised how negatively you feel about it, given my and my family’s very good experiences.

tonymet 2y ago
The ability to take a library with me is great, obviously. I also primarily read on kindle. The complaints I have are all qualities within their control that seem to be lagging due to neglect (responsiveness, UI, stability, degrading performance over time, keyboard, search) Now ignore the library aspect and compare reading a single book to reading a single e-book and the gaps will be more visible.
- sokoloff 2y ago
  I was recently given a physical book as part of a work-related book club and took it along with my Kindle on a family vacation in April, so I ended up doing a direct comparison. The physical book was not better than a Kindle version would have been. It was bigger, heavier, was only one book, was harder to read in the evening, harder to highlight passages and find them later. I think the only thing is the around double resolution of the print version, where the Kindle's ~300dpi is entirely passable, and the fact that the book's "battery life" is >100 years while the Kindle needs charging once per month. Still a big Kindle win.
amenhotep 2y ago
You really threw me for a second with talking about your kids reading and then saying "I'd have to look up how old they are, but the newest one is two years old"!

tonymet 2y ago

The ability to take a library with me is great, obviously. I also primarily read on kindle. The complaints I have are all qualities within their control that seem to be lagging due to neglect (responsiveness, UI, stability, degrading performance over time, keyboard, search) Now ignore the library aspect and compare reading a single book to reading a single e-book and the gaps will be more visible.

sokoloff 2y ago
I was recently given a physical book as part of a work-related book club and took it along with my Kindle on a family vacation in April, so I ended up doing a direct comparison. The physical book was not better than a Kindle version would have been. It was bigger, heavier, was only one book, was harder to read in the evening, harder to highlight passages and find them later. I think the only thing is the around double resolution of the print version, where the Kindle's ~300dpi is entirely passable, and the fact that the book's "battery life" is >100 years while the Kindle needs charging once per month. Still a big Kindle win.

amenhotep 2y ago

You really threw me for a second with talking about your kids reading and then saying "I'd have to look up how old they are, but the newest one is two years old"!