Note #9

Every single day, almost religiously, for the past five years, I’ve followed the same routine: I wake up absurdly early — around 4 a.m. — work out, and by about 7:30 I’m already at the office, ready to face another day like a responsible adult pretending to have his life fully under control.

But some things require practicality, and books are definitely one of them.

For years, I enjoyed taking physical books to work. There’s something nice about carrying a real book around — until, after a while, I’d lose focus. Then I’d want variety. And, inconveniently enough, I couldn’t carry my entire personal library in my bag like some kind of literary pack mule.

That’s what got me interested in eReaders in the first place, starting — as I’ve written before — with the Kindle.

But every day it was the same little circus: laptop into the bag, laptop out of the bag, Kindle in, Kindle out, papers everywhere, repeat until spiritually exhausted. At some point, it stopped being charming and started being just plain impractical.

So I decided to try the Xteink, and honestly, it surprised me. Whenever possible, I kept it attached to my phone, and it helped me get a surprising amount of reading done during those tiny, almost mythical pockets of free time.

And for a while, that seemed like the ultimate solution.

Well — it was.

Until I met the BigMe.