My Kindle Experience and Review

Hello Happy Readers,

I love books. I love reading them, reading about them, research them and their authors. I love the feel of the pages whilst reading a book and I love their covers.
I hate it when my books get worn out in my bags when I carry them around me as I read them or are too bulky to carry around.
Therefore, after years of debating with myself (and even reading from my phone and tablet), I finally broke down and got myself a Kindle. Since I never like getting anything without doing some research beforehand, I googled, compared and checked the Romanian market for a Kindle. Eventually I  decided to get a Kindle Paperwhite, because it had a good price/ capability ratio, which I found on a pretty decent price in a store in Bucharest - ordering it from amazon wasn't a cost effective option.

Now, two months after I got it, I can give my honest opinion about it.
Good for on the road reading. I use it mainly when I am not at home to read on my way to work or while on vacation. Since I never leave the house without a book, this way I don't have to haul 1.000 pages volumes in my bag and get them ruined in the process, and as an added bonus it is light and small enough to fit in any of my bags.
Speaking of bags, I got a case for it right away to keep it from getting damaged in the bag.
Battery isn't a problem (so far). Since I got it, I only charged its batteries twice, the first time some weeks after I started using it, since the battery was partially charged and then about 5 weeks after, during which time I used it constantly in the mornings and evenings on my way to and from work. It also charges easily with the same cable I use for my HTC M9.

Have more books on the go. It has a 4 GB memory, good enough to store a lot of books. No need to carry around 2 books, as I approach the ending of one of them.
Easy to use. The packaging has a Certified Frustration-Free Packaging stamp on it, which can also be translated to the way the Kindle can be setup and accessed. Books can be saved on the Kindle easily via the charging cable (it comes with) by connecting it to a laptop. And it supports a wide variety of formats. It also connects to the internet via WiFi like any other gadget you own and to your Facebook and Goodreads accounts, if you want to. You also need an Amazon Kindle account, which you can use to purchase books.
Amazon Kindle Books. The software is designed to advertise various Kindle book offers from Amazon, which can sometimes get annoying and some of which, however, are not available for Romania, hence extra annoyance. Don't get me wrong, I do understand that Amazon has to make a living, but I cannot see how they can do that if their offers are exclusive only to some countries. The good part is that after the recent software update, you can opt to hide some of the advertisements.

Reading experience. You can read on the Kindle comfortably on all levels of lighting (or lack thereof) with no glare (which is one of the main reasons I decided to get it - reading from the tablet is not something I enjoy) and it shows your reading progress throughout the book. It also calculates the time remained in a book based on how fast you read. Other perks are a vocabulary database and dictionaries - I have the "Oxford American", "Oxford English" and "Oxford German - English", but I believe you can add more dictionaries.

Overall I like my kindle, I found a lot of cool books at very good prices and my physical books don't get damaged anymore. But getting a Kindle doesn't mean I don't buy physical books anymore - I actually purchased 8 physical books since I got the Kindle - which I read at home, because nothing can replace the experience of reading actual books and flipping actual pages - although in my opnion

the smell of new books is sometimes doesn't rise to its fame.

I hope this helped you book readers out there.
How do you like to read your books? Do you also own a Kindle? You still read paper books?

Cheers,
Alex.
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