The Kindle Oasis Convinced Me to Switch to Ebooks
How my new e-reader radically changed how I read
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King
We’ve heard the advice before. Or maybe not. But read any book about writing or explore any forum, and you’ll find that writers each other to read and write.
But is there a best way to read? Since e-readers came out, there have been many debates on the topic. Paperback vs Ebook, the age-old question. I’ll be honest: I wrote off e-readers for a long time because I had a subpar experience with one of the first Kindle Paperwhites. It just couldn’t compare to the reading experience of real paper. The screen was dim, turning pages was slow, and it didn’t fit well in my hands.
It’s been years since I touched a Kindle, and I’ve been buying books and building up a collection on my bookshelf since. But I decided to make the switch back to Kindle. There wasn’t one reason I did it. It was a combination of different factors: seeing my friend’s new Kindle, running out of bookshelf space, shipping books was too slow, borrowing books from the library being a hassle (my schedule makes me time-poor). I also live in Sydney, Australia, and we’ve had bushfires recently. I’m not the most…
