Vivek Gani

You remember you need to text your friend something, and you remember it right in the middle of the work day. Sending the message now potentially means starting a whole conversation, and not sending it now means forgetting it altogether. Or you send it anyway and wait in angst for them to reply….when they eventually have free time. You could use reminders and calendars, but that could mean getting reminded while doing yet another thing, like driving somewhere.

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This post is tailored to civilian backpack nerds and folks with the “minimalist bug”, so if you travel a fair bit, or just hate boring black-colored luggage like I do, read on.

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For years, I avoided e-ink readers (kindle, nook, etc.) because I hated looking at them when I really wanted to read - at night, usually before bedtime. When they didn’t have a backlight, they required me to get up to turn on a light (and eventually turn one off). Similarly, I never liked using an ipad/android tablet for books because they usually felt too bright or bulky. This pain finally seemed to go away when the kindle and nook both introduced backlit e-ink readers.

So, I caved and impulsively bought a nook touch with glowlight. Using it during the daytime is great just like any other eink device, but something still didn’t feel right when reading at night - my eyes just hurt reading it during the night.

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