I desperately needed to quench the reading dry spell. But I came crawling back to the world of written word. Yes, I dabbled into audiobooks for a while, however expensive they were. I couldn’t also bring them during travels. But after reading some of them, my hands would ache they were too heavy for long reading sessions. I tried to fill the void by hoarding paperbacks and hardcovers. As someone who was used to its comfort, my reading life had significantly become sluggish again. So I went on for many years ereader-less. And when I finally had the resources to check it out of my Amazon cart, I was hit by a snag: it was sold out. Aside from the heftier price tag, I would also have to pay for the shipping cost, which is not cheap. I’m not from the United States, so getting a Kindle Oasis would take months, not days. But there’s a bit of a problem: It’s not accessible to where I live. So I sold it off to a friend in the hopes of upgrading to the pricier Kindle Oasis. I wanted to actively engage my mind I didn’t want someone to read to me.Īfter some time though, the refurbished Paperwhite I bought was getting laggy, bulky, and clunky.

And even though I discovered audiobooks soon after, they are a completely different format.

Sure, I could have tried audiobooks, but it wasn’t yet on my radar at the time. Having a short attention span, I was also easily distracted. In rare moments that I successfully did, I fell asleep easily or my head spun. Whenever I got home from work, I couldn’t muster the courage to pick them up or even load them on up my phone. There were books from series unfinished and forgotten. When I entered the corporate world months later, my reading life definitely tanked. But alas, gone were those days when all I do was curl up with a good book and forget the world for a while. I was such a heavy reader back then that no one would be able to talk to me for several hours in the morning. I used to stay up all night reading ebooks on my phone. That’s how I remember my nights during college a lifetime ago. I didn’t know, my body clock was messed up. It was my escape from the dreary events of everyday life - until my body told me to give it up and try again tomorrow. At around 11 p.m., I started to devour the newly released book from my favorite young adult series. Having stretched out on the bed for a long time, not even getting up to take a bathroom break, my bones ached after a several hours of reading. My clock read 5 a.m., and I felt dizzy staring at my phone for hours.

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