If you're into reading or you want to get into reading books this is a video for you.
So today I want to talk about this guy right here, the Kindle e-reader. I'll share why the
Kindle has improved my reading game so much and why you should get it. So we'll look at
the features it has to offer and at the end, I'll talk about how you can integrate the kindle device
with other services that can give you some really really cool features so stick around for that.
And feel free to use the timestamps below to jump around to different parts of the video as
you please so recently I shared a video on how to read more books and I briefly touched on how the
kinder helped me with that I read 28 books last year and this year I want to take it up to 50.
nearly double i know but i think it's achievable and i got my kindle on the second half of last
year and i think had i had it throughout the year i probably would have read more than 28 books
so how did it improve my reading well it's made my reading much easier and accessible and it's
taken away that resistance from reading and i'm a strong believing that if you want to do
something frequently find a way of making it much easier and more accessible and because i can take
it anywhere and keep it with me all the time i then try to fill that down time i get here and
there with some reading instead of reaching out for my phone as you know sometimes when
you're waiting for something or you're waiting for someone what we tend to do is reach for our
phones but with the kindle within ease reach it means i'm more likely to spend my time reading
i also read articles on pocket the relator app and i used to read mainly on my phone but by
using my phone for reading i could easily get distracted and because i may see a notification
badge that could then suck me into this dark hole of endless attention magnetism energy thingy
if you know what i mean and so now what i do is sync my pocket articles to my kindle
so pretty much any web article any blog it just see i can get that on my kindle
more on that in a bit i think another reason the kindle improved my reading is that psychological
thing of because i bought this device and so by having invested into my reading i'm more likely
to take it more seriously and to be fair i like the kinder because it's a gadget a cool gadget for
that in my opinion and i've wondered many times just why i didn't get this device much sooner
and it's super easy to use there's not a lot of menus and options you literally get straight to
your books it's a no-brainer right let's talk about features shall we the most obvious one is
display if the kindle e-reader is something new to you basically it uses e-in technology to produce
a display that's almost paper-like so it's very easy on the eyes i like reading from a tablet or a
phone the display is also backlit for not reading and it also has dark mode which makes it even much
easier on the eyes but dark mode is only available on the kindle paperwhite and oasis highlighting is
something you can do with pretty much any book but with the kindle you get to see all your highlights
in one place in the notes section you can then also view them on the web browser and be able
to copy them to your notes app as i do and i'll show you an easier way to get your highlights
automatically to your notes at the end if you are like me you may find yourself occasionally
wanting to find the meaning of certain new words you would have come across while reading
previously when i came across a new word i would have to check on my phone for the definition of
that word but now i can just check on my kindle and on top of that the kindle collects all those
words you'd have searched the definitions for into what they call the vocabulary builder so you can
then go back and remind yourself of those words and increase your vocabulary that way and that's
what i do to sound smarter yeah if you're an avid reader you probably already know of goodreads but
if it's new to you goodreads is basically sort of a social media platform for readers so you can go
in there to check book reviews check on the quotes and also keep track of the books you're reading
and the tracking feature is the important feature here because the kinder does it automatically as
soon as you start reading a book that's recorded on your goodreads account and the same applies
when you finish the book the history of it is that back in 2013 amazon acquired goodreads and so
that's why this whole service was integrated into kinder devices so well another great service for
readers is read-wise and if you are a reader and are not already using read wise you should give
it a try straight away trust me it will change the way you read what read wise does is that it sends
you a daily email of your best highlights from your kindle and also from other reading services
like pocket insta paper ibooks and so on and once you've integrated your amazon account with read
wise whenever you highlight something on your kindle it automatically appears on read wise
and read wires will then email you some of the highlights that stood out for you and you would
have likely have forgotten about those highlights like i find it's really cool in addition to that
read wise there's a feature that allows you to sync your highlights to your favorite notes
taking app i use evernote for taking notes when i'm reading a book so being able to automatically
sync the highlights to evernote seamlessly makes the whole kinder experience worthwhile
i have days when i spend time reviewing the notes i took from a book i've read and thinking of how
i can apply those concepts i've learned into my own life and showing them into videos like this
and having those book highlights together with my own notes makes it extremely useful i mentioned
earlier that you can read your pocket articles on your kindle so to do that you will need to
use the website pgk.co i'll leave a link to it below you can even schedule your synchronization
to happen automatically those are the benefits i found myself and i'm glad i bought the device the
kindle starts at 6999 here in the uk for the basic one but if you were to buy it during amazon sales
like prime day you'll get it for much cheaper just as a side note you can actually check the
price of the kindle and gain a lot when the price goes down if you use the website karma karma kama
i'll link it below ebooks tend to be much cheaper than print versions so you'll make your money back
in no time from the savings you would have made from the digital books i honestly think that even
if you're someone who likes reading paper books so that you can smell the paper and all of that
i think the advantages and the features of the kindle outweigh the paper options over the
christmas period just gone i wasn't as productive as i would have wanted to be and i lacked a bit of
discipline here and there with a few things i do but the one habit i managed to maintain very well
was reading and i honestly think it's because with reading i've taken away that resistance
and made it very very easy to do by having a kindle so there you go if you found the video
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