Every year I make a list of intentions, not resolutions.  New Year’s resolutions never work out for me.  I’m not very good at making changes to my life and sticking to them.  Instead of making resolutions, I make intentions, five of them usually and I do my best to make them happen.

This year one of my intentions was to read more.  It’s not that I don’t read. I do read a lot for work, to keep up on the latest news and to learn more about things that interest me but I’m talking about recreational reading, reading for fun. Most of my reading for fun is done using Audible and that’s more listening than reading and so one of my intentions was not to change the amount of books I listen to on Audible but to add to that by actually some  books to help improve my vocabulary and hopefully, like this blog, my writing skills.

So in January, I started off by reading a book called the The Caped Crusade: Batman and The Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon, an amazing book about well the Rise of Nerd Culture and I loved it. I read it on my iPad and honestly, it took longer than it should have and I attributed that to reading on the iPad.  While a great experience there were a few things about reading on an iPad that were not ideal.

First of all, it’s a big device, and it’s not the lightest thing in the world and all of that could be overlooked if it weren’t for the interruptions. The iPad is full of distractions that end up being interruptions. From text messages to emails to the multitude of other apps that are available, I found it really hard to get lost in the book and hence, I didn’t continue reading books, I just went back to listening to them.

Cut to last month when I decided to buy myself a Kindle Paperwhite. It was on sale and so I decided to replace my original Kindle with this new fancy Paperwhite.  It was a fantastic decision, the device is super light, small and has a wonderfully lit screen.  I’ve already read my first book, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie and am halfway through The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  I flew through the first book and truly feel like I’m getting back to my old speed with reading and I couldn’t be happier. The only downside so far is that this just adds to the huge list of things I’m trying to do on a weekly basis, but I have to say, this is a habit I want to fade away again.