Spotlight Item: My Kindle

This is a slightly odd post to make considering my spotlight items so far have been beauty related, but I truly stand by this post. I wanted to feature something quite different this time around, but something that's truly been revolutionary for me.

For the longest time I swore against ever using a Kindle. I couldn't understand how people could read their books on screens instead of picking up an actual physical copy. Last year, I mentioned that my New Year's Resolution was to read for fun more, something I'd stopped doing without even realising at first. Being a university student, and having to fly back and forth across the Atlantic at the beginning and end of every term, physical books weren't the most convenient for me. I first used a Kindle a few years ago when I spent a month in India and my dad loaned me his Kindle so I could read on the flight. That was the point when I realised Kindles weren't the most evil and pointless things in the world, but I stopped using it as soon as I got back home. At Christmas the end of my first year of uni, my uncle very kindly gifted me an old Kindle Fire of his. This turned out to be revolutionary. I finally started reading for fun again because I wasn't worried about the physical space being taken up by books in my suitcase.

Last summer, I amped things up a notch when I discovered an app called Libby. It's run by Overdrive, which works with libraries to basically create a system for borrowing ebooks from your local library. I have two library cards, having signed up for one in my university town to gain access to more ebooks. This has been absolutely amazing for me because I now also don't have to worry about the cost of buying books for my Kindle. Last year I read 16 books, this year I've already read 20. I've truly transformed from Kindle sceptic to Kindle enthusiast, and it's helped me rekindle (pun not intended, I swear) my love for reading.

Kindle's are particularly great when reading long books. I've been working my way through Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton, which if I were reading a physical copy would be extremely cumbersome. Instead, I can carry it with me absolutely everywhere because it's on my Kindle.

I still, of course, love nothing more than a physical book, and my Kindle will never completely replace them, but for the time being the Kindle is far more convenient for me. I'm so much happier now that I've rediscovered my love for reading, and I think that the me of the past who was so vehemently against e-readers would (just about) forgive me for making the switch.

What about you guys; how do you feel about e-readers?

xoxo
Alice