Kindle Scribe 2022 discounted to something like €250. My old e-reader was dog slow and I’ve been going through many pages of physical notebooks lately so it looked like it would solve many of my issues. Software is shit but can be worked around and the hardware is just 👌. Very happy with the thing for this price.
On the opposite end of the size spectrum, I bought a Boox Palma (smartphone-sized) a little over a year ago, and $300 felt like a lot for a small e-reader… I had originally bought it as a “companion” device to my dumb-phone, since it runs Android and has google play services, but I found that even that small single layer of friction to use smart-apps (starting up hotspot on my phone, taking out the Palma, disabling airplane mode) made it extremely easy to just quit cold turkey, and I have pretty much only read on it.
I have found that I read SO much more at this form factor. I slip it in my pocket and take it with me when I go for aimless walks around town, to the cafe in the mornings on the weekend, to work every day to read during lunch… I never took my Kindle Oasis nearly that many places, as it necessitated some kind of bag to hold it. Definitely worth it, even if I am only utilizing like 10% of its “features”.
I also spent $350 on a pair of Maui Jim sunglasses last summer before a trip to Hawaii, and I can honestly say that even though I was initially sickened by the price, I do not regret it one bit, and I still love them. They’re so much better than any random $100 pair I’ve had in the past. It was one of those things where I walked into a store last minute and very uninformed to try and find a new pair because I extremely inconveniently broke my only good pair 2 weeks before the trip and the company didn’t repair them or sell spare lenses. Picked up a pair of MJ’s without knowing how much they cost, put them on, absolutely LOVED them, then saw the price and was like “well fuck… I really want these”, waffled it over for a week and 3 days, then rushed back to the store the day before my flight and bought them)
Kindle Scribe 2022 discounted to something like €250. My old e-reader was dog slow and I’ve been going through many pages of physical notebooks lately so it looked like it would solve many of my issues. Software is shit but can be worked around and the hardware is just 👌. Very happy with the thing for this price.
On the opposite end of the size spectrum, I bought a Boox Palma (smartphone-sized) a little over a year ago, and $300 felt like a lot for a small e-reader… I had originally bought it as a “companion” device to my dumb-phone, since it runs Android and has google play services, but I found that even that small single layer of friction to use smart-apps (starting up hotspot on my phone, taking out the Palma, disabling airplane mode) made it extremely easy to just quit cold turkey, and I have pretty much only read on it.
I have found that I read SO much more at this form factor. I slip it in my pocket and take it with me when I go for aimless walks around town, to the cafe in the mornings on the weekend, to work every day to read during lunch… I never took my Kindle Oasis nearly that many places, as it necessitated some kind of bag to hold it. Definitely worth it, even if I am only utilizing like 10% of its “features”.
I also spent $350 on a pair of Maui Jim sunglasses last summer before a trip to Hawaii, and I can honestly say that even though I was initially sickened by the price, I do not regret it one bit, and I still love them. They’re so much better than any random $100 pair I’ve had in the past. It was one of those things where I walked into a store last minute and very uninformed to try and find a new pair because I extremely inconveniently broke my only good pair 2 weeks before the trip and the company didn’t repair them or sell spare lenses. Picked up a pair of MJ’s without knowing how much they cost, put them on, absolutely LOVED them, then saw the price and was like “well fuck… I really want these”, waffled it over for a week and 3 days, then rushed back to the store the day before my flight and bought them)