Why are Amazon Kindles still worth it in 2024
They don’t do color and you can’t watch Netflix on them, but Amazon Kindle still holds its own and you should really consider them. Experience is what we are all after. Sometimes perhaps a bit too much but generally, we want a good experience. Whether that is watching a movie in theaters or watching your favorite show on your iPad. The thing is, reading on a tablet has long been subpar experience. Especially when we are talking about extended periods of time. That is where Amazon Kindle still shines as a tablet.
If you have a tablet already, you might be wondering if an Amazon Kindle is worth its investment. Well, no one can really make that decision for you but in my opinion, it is a worthy one indeed.
They are cheap
They are about the only tablets that go for less. You can get a decent one for about $100. There are fancier ones like the waterproof ones but basics work just as well.
Screen is amazing! In its own way
Kindles use a different kind of screen called an e-ink display. Unlike a normal screen, it make it look and feel like paper. The text looks close to an ink on paper as it gets. This is a totally different experience and something that wow’d me. There are several advantages to this. First, it doesn’t fatigue your eyes nearly as much, if at all. It is very much like staring at a paper because it has no glowing components like normals screens have. Second, if you read at night, it won’t blind you when it loads. You don’t have to go into dark mode either because of the screen since it doesn’t glow. It does light up gently for reading in the dark. This is nowhere near those backlit LED stuff on your tablets.
They are light
The weight is nowhere near your tablets. Since it doesn’t require heavy duty components to do a lot of computation, you’ll forget you had one in your bag.
Battery lasts forever
You can use these things for weeks. Yes WEEKS! Not days. Not hours. This is important because you are almost never in a race against time. If you are a traveler, the advantages are obvious.
Carry all your books
Here we come to the main advantage that is also a disadvantage of the Kindle: the ability to download and carry many books at once. A tradeoff is made to make this happen. Mainly, the physical book feel and the inability to resell your books. Books take up a lot of space and paper is heavy. In the modern world, it is advantageous to view a book on a device. It’ll never duplicate the experience of a real book but a Kindle comes as close as a device can.
As a camper, I find great value in a device like the Kindle that is above any tablet I have ever used.