After many years of mostly audiobooks, especially during the pandemic, I’m back with physical books and revived (charged for a while to bring it back to life) my kindle. Looking through my digital library, it seems I was going through books at a steady pace on the kindle in 2014, and resorted to audiobooks after that. Which kind of makes sense, because I moved from Toronto (when I was a quick cycle ride away from work) to Leuven (long bus and train rides).

I had forgotten what a joy the kindle is. Even though I love the feel of a paperback, the size and weight of the kindle is just right. It’s probably my fault that I started with Murakami‘s killing C which was too hefty to move attend, forcing me to look through my boxes to find my kindle.

I had forgotten that these things don’t do mobi anymore but the open format epub. However, the kindle seems to struggle which encoding causing apostrophes to be displayed as strange characters. I thought I’d power through it, but it breaks the flow. Some suggested using calibre to fix it, but the simpler solution I discovered was to convert them to docx, which you can do on your phone.

I have now an exciting collection to go through the next weeks - few AI books, Dave eggers, Trevor Noah’s born a crime which I’ve been meaning to read forever but never got around to it, Andy Weir’s Artemis, recent Cory doctrows, and kuang’s Babel.