eReader LOVE.

While working at the library over the past six months I have fallen in love with something that I previously thought to be silly. I have fallen head over heals in love with eReaders. I think they are genius.  They are so light weight and can fit so nicely in a purse, the battery lasts forever, there are thousands of free books and are super easy to use and  read.

A big selling feature for me is  the easiness of reading them. I hate to read on screens be it the computer or my phone. My phone is too small and I cannot concentrate or follow my spot on a computer. In university I actually used to have to print off all of my notes and journals in order to actually read them. Lets just say that wasted a ton of paper and ink.

I spent about a week researching which version of an ereader I wanted. I knew I did not want the kindle as it is not compatible with Ontario libraries (and I intended to pay for as few books as possible), the Kobo Vox/Arc were not options as they are more so tablets (which is like reading on a computer) in my opinion and I liked the idea of the paper write. So that left the sony ereader and the other Kobos (glo, mini and original).

I knew the sony ereader was out because I feel like it is over priced, not as easy to use with the library system (although it can be done directly on the ereader using wifi which is nice) and it was hard to use when hooked up to the computer. I knew these things not through research however, simply with using them enough to know.

So for me that left the Kobo, Kobo Mini and Kobo Glo. I was leaning towards the mini or the glow. I loved the mini because of the size and I totally planned on carrying it around in my purse all the time, but I loved the glo because of the back-light when needed. I could not make up my mind and thankfully did not have to. I came home from work about a week ago and found a gift wrapped from my husband (have I mentioned that my greatest love language is gifts? Was I ever excited.). I had guessed it was a TV series as I love my TV series and was completely blown away with my new hot pink Kobo Glo.

I love it. I love to read it at night, I love how light weight it is, and how easy it is to use. I love everything about it and am still slightly blown away that out of the blue my husband would go and get it for me. He said it was because he had enough of me debating out loud to him which one to get and if I should or should not get one etc. So I now carry it everywhere I go with the hopes that I have five minutes to read. So if you read, I highly recommend and ereader. I love mine.