kindle unlimited

Created by the popular but often controversial company Amazon, the humble Kindle eReader and its associated ebooks have revolutionized and permanently shifted the trajectory of the book and publishing industry. Following the success of the rapidly growing ebook market, in 2014 Amazon introduced their digital subscription service Kindle Unlimited. Now if you somehow stumbled on to my book blog, you’re likely quite familiar with ebooks and Kindle Unlimited so I can likely cut this intro blurb and get right into the nitty-gritty details. But for those unfamiliar with Kindle Unlimited (I’ll be shortening it to KU for the rest of this review), KU is a subscription service that promises a huge selection of ebooks, free to access and read with no limitations on how long you can keep them for compared to the similar Libby/Overdrive system offered by Libraries. While you can technically download and read an unlimited number of ebooks from Amazon’s rotating selection, you can only access and read them for as long as you have an active KU membership. Instead of paying a licensing fee per purchase (aka Amazon’s version of “buying an ebook”), the monthly payment gets you blanket access to Amazon’s huge library akin to…

I’d been holding out with my current ereader that has slowly developed a minor battery swelling issue for the past year but unfortunately I could not resist the most recent Kindle sale and took the plunge with the new Colorsoft version. Yes, I’m fully aware of the endless bad press and reviews that have been all over the place since its less than smooth launch. However, I’ve always enjoyed trying out fun new toys from my techie background and although I have limited use for the color edition, I really wanted to give it a try (I also tried out a test unit in Bestbuy soon after it launched as I was curious on how distracting the Kaleido 3 “screen door effect” was). Of course as part of every new kindle purchase, you can opt in for 3 months of free Kindle Unlimited which everyone should do. It’s fully free as long you cancel the trial before the 3-months are up (plus there’s an option to send you a reminder 3 days before the trial ends). One of my friends had also been enjoying her free months of Kindle Unlimited from the holiday season and after discussing some of her…