Why is Kindle my favourite piece of tech?
A review of Amazon Kindle based on personal experiences.
Everyone is a reader… Some just haven’t found their favorite book yet. ~Anonymous
Humans have relied on books for ages as their primary mode to intake information. However, evolving from the periods when people maintained stone tablets to store information, readers have seen immense metamorphosis, and it is a remarkable story of its own. The millennials have already witnessed this and can see the internet and digital blogging space replacing books. Though nothing can replace the satisfaction and joy one feels, turning through a book and smelling the essence hidden between its pages, Kindle plays its part.
When we talk about books and digitization, one cannot skip the importance of Amazon and Jeff Bezos. He started the company as an online bookstore and cut to the present; he is selling you a nifty device that one can use to read those books. These excellent pieces of tech are called Kindle.
So what's a kindle? Is it a store? Is it a tablet? or Maybe a hype?
The Amazon Kindle is a series of e-readers designed and marketed by Amazon. Amazon Kindle devices enable users to browse, buy, download, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, and other digital media via wireless networking to the Kindle Store. ~ Wikipedia
Kindle is neither a tablet nor any temporary hype. It is a technology that makes it easy to read books, emails, pdfs, and view gifs or png images. As an avid Kindle user, I feel it is the best technology present in the present tech space for readers. At first look itself, you will notice that the Kindle screen is not a regular tablet or mobile screen but something more subtle and quite different. These screens are known as e-ink Electronic paper displays and mock the physical paper/newspaper almost perfectly. The best part is these screens provide extensive viewing angles and glare-free reading. So you can read a kindle under direct sunlight and would still be able to glide through your stories.
Kindle, like any other technology, has evolved. These upgrades have been provided in distinct generations, and the latest Kindle is at its tenth generation. It's available in three variants called kindle paperwhite, kindle oasis, and Kindle. One can choose between these variants depending on the use case and relevance.
An e-reader vest a lot of digital-only features at one's dispense.
- One can change the font size and highlight sections of a paragraph that resonated.
- Using the text to audio converter, one can make the Kindle read the text for him.
- All your favourite books can stay in one place, and you can browse through the bookmarks or highlights you made while reading.
- You can send over your PDFs and research papers found online, and Kindle automatically converts them to "kindle format" for users to read.
I use kindle paperwhite. It provides me storage of 8 GB and a stable wifi connection which I can use to browse through the kindle store and download thousands of books if I can ever do so XD. The Kindle e-reader has always been a single-purpose device for reading rather than multipurpose hardware that might create distractions. So you don't need to worry about any other device for your reading specific needs, providing a range of features.
