Only one, however, had all of them: the Kindle Oasis. When I went shopping, I looked at the whole Kindle range and each one had at least one of my requirements. The tactile click of the buttons had replaced the act of turning the page for me - I don't think I could do without it. I wanted a warm light, a sturdy aluminum chassis, and, most of all, buttons. The tactile click of the buttons had become like a replacement for the act of turning the page for me A replacement was necessary, and I wanted all the features.

I don't think devastated quite cuts it I was bereft of my Kindle. Once I'd realized that the Kindle was the future of reading, I used it for years until I dropped it down a mountain path, and watched it tumble to its doom at the base of a rocky outcrop. Those 14 books I'd leave with and 20 I'd come back with two weeks later were no longer a space issue - it was all on a little device I could almost fit in a pocket. I could download all the books I could ever read onto my little Kindle and pop it in my rucksack. Suddenly, I didn't have to restrict my book intake. I'm a book-a-day kind of gal when I go away, and when you're heading off into the deepest darkest depths of the North of England for two weeks, you tend to bring more books than you know what to do with.

It was the space-saving aspect of it that made me realize just how useful a Kindle is.

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