5 Reasons Kindle wins over paperbacks in 2021

Aditya Darekar
4 min readAug 17, 2021

I got my first Kindle as a birthday present at the age of 15. However, the country I resided in did not have a good implementation of buying Kindle e-books from the Amazon website and so I ended up not using the Kindle for at least the first three years.

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However, after I relocated to India, Kindle suddenly became my go-to reader not just for regular novels and fictions but also my college textbooks that I would read and use to highlight notes on the Kindle app on my iPad. After using the Kindle and the Kindle App on my iPad for two years now, I have finally been able to say goodbye to almost all paperback purchases (I have bought 0 Paperbacks since 2019) and I feel the need to tell people how about this transition more than ever during this period of the pandemic we are going through (or maybe getting out of).

So here are 5 reasons how the Kindle has replaced Paperbacks in my life:

  1. Durability: My books are light and don’t tear
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When I relocated to India two years ago, I carried with me around 15 paperbacks making my backpack almost two kilograms heavier. Also, cramming them up with clothes lead to folded pages and covers…

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Aditya Darekar

23 | IT Graduate | Tech Enthusiast | I love to write about Apple Tech and how I use it for leading a healthier, happier and productive life ⌚️💻📱