5 reasons I spent 264 EUR on a Kindle Scribe

First reason: it's Prime Day, so the device is retailing at 33% of the usual price of 399 EUR. So the first reason is that I have a monkey brain.

Second: I do find it strenuous to read on my Kindle basic 10th generation. At the font size I need to read comfortably, too few words fit on the page, so I have to "flip" the pages a lot more than I would a real book. The Scribe has much greater screen real estate (10 inch vs 6 inch) that should solve this problem.

Third: I feel like I'm lacking a go-to physical writing device. I have a Moleskine notebook that I used to love, but I think often about how much each one costs and how little I refer back to them. Maybe 70 year old me will kick myself for giving up on writing on these leather bound notebooks, but I doubt that day will really come. I'd be a few orders of magnitude sadder if I lost my photos archive.

Fourth: I intend to use this thing at home in bed. When I'm on the go, I intend to bring not the Scribe but the Kindle basic as it fits in one hand and weighs less in the bag. I already like to prop up my tiny Kindle on a cushion on my lap to read, so this device is going to get the same treatment, making moot the argument that it's too big to hold in the hand when I'm reading (at home in bed, mostly).

Fifth: The higher refresh rate. One of the key reasons I choose to read most books in digital format is that I sync everything using a paid app called Readwise. But the latency in typing on a Kindle basic is sometimes quite annoying. The latency fluctuates quite a bit too, so it's hard to adapt my tapping speed. The Kindle Scribe, with a higher refresh rate, should make typing on the screen more snappy. Hopefully it gets close to the snappiness of typing on an iPad.

Finally, the real reason that any of this matters is that reading is fun and enriching. If paying 264 EUR helps me do more reading, it's worth every euro.

And yeah, good and bad decisions happen in real-time here. Thanks for reading.