Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂May 7

One of my biggest regrets from the past few years was losing the habit of reading books. All the usual excuses: child to look after, too tired, not enough time…

I didn’t read a ton, but I had an average of 30 books a year. Last year I must have read 6. This year in early April I was at 0… and the realization shook me to my core.

Something had to be done.

I found out about KOreader and SimpleUI - having on an e-reader homepage a bar with reading stats would be an incredible motivator… I thought.

Jailbroke my #Kindle, installed #KOreader and #SimpleUI. And 18 days later I have… an 18 day reading streak and I’m averaging 43 minutes of reading time per day. I’m just so happy! 😊

(Unrelated but #Technofeudalism is REALLY GOOD - off to go resume reading it for another 20 minutes or so).

#books #reading #habits #KindleJailbreak

Show threadtootbruteMay 7
@elena whoa whoa...simple UI? what's that. i already have KOReader on it and it's lovely. yours looks even lovelier. i need to get this.
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@elena also varoufakis is the man. the coolest economist and stood up for greece when troika tried to kill greece with debt.
May 7 at 8:50amWeb
Show threadSamuelJohnsonMay 7
@tootbrute @elena He mooned Greece's creditors and got crushed. The people who tried to kill Greece were Greek tax dodgers and the American consultants who helped the govt cook the books.