Kindle Touch and Me

Took the Kindle Touch with me for my morning coffee.

My Kindle Touch arrived yesterday. After using Kindle Fire for a few days, it took me quite some time to get used to it. The reasons? Page turning is slower, there are less fonts available so books sometimes don't look as beautiful as on Fire, navigating my archived items (I have more than 200 books) is cumbersome, I can't listen to music when I read*, etc. For a moment, I questioned my decision to get a Touch after already owning a Fire. However, I decided to give it more time before giving it away to some friend. 

Because Touch is much lighter than Fire, it's much more comfortable to take it with me. I took it to gym and found the eInk display worked really well for reading on an exercise bike. I also found, without the distraction of color, music, and Internet, I was "forced" to read more deeply. I remembered how I read when I was a child, the focus, the concentration. Then I realized this type of reading was reserved for something special. Suddenly I realized the perfect reading material for Kindle Touch, poetry.  

I download Tennyson and started reading Ulysses. The eInk display looked just like the small, hardback poetry books I sometimes collected. It was wonderful*. I download more poems and created a poetry collection. Now the Touch has started to grow on me. I even see it as a metaphor, with the Fire as my "public" self, and the Touch as my "private" self. It may be flawed, but it has found its place.    


*None of them should have come as a surprise since I already had a Kindle DX for a few years. However, after using Fire for a few days, they became intolerable.
**I tried reading the same poem on Fire and found something was lacking on the LCD display.