Kindle

device · in 7 sources (2018–2024)

Sources by year: 2018: 2 · 2020: 4 · 2024: 1

Also known as: Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Oasis, Kindle Scribe

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Audible (3)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2024

• 2024-05-21 · Here's how you can read more books this year 📚 — recommendation: Ali: To read more books, Ali keeps the Kindle and Audible apps on the first page of his iPhone home screen with no social media apps there, so opening Kindle becomes his default. — 00:00:00

2020

• 2020-06-03 · All the Apps I Use in a Day — Ali keeps his Kindle on his bedside table and reads fiction in bed with the brightness turned right down so it does not strain his eyes. — 00:11:31
• 2020-06-10 (said on 2020-06-01, implied) · Music, Reading and Note-Taking - Productive Day in the Life — Ali: With Apple Music's Pure Country station playing on the HomePod, Ali rereads one of his favourite books, Derek Sivers's Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur. — 00:01:27
• 2020-06-14 · Is Reading Fiction Books Good for You? — Ali says most of what he reads is fiction: he always has a fantasy series on Audible, currently The Wheel of Time, and a paranormal romance on Kindle before bed, currently A Court of Thorns and Roses. — 00:00:00
• …and 3 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

2018

• 2018-05-14 · Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal — Ali says the Kindle has done more than anything else in his life to improve his reading and his appreciation of the world. (overstated) — 00:07:53
  • Ali came across little new material in April 2018 because he had left his Kindle at his family home in St Albans for about two months while revising. — 00:07:53
  • Ali's bedtime routine: lights off, he reads on his Kindle Paperwhite at its lowest brightness until he feels really tired, then drops it on the floor and falls asleep. — 00:08:37
  • Without his Kindle Ali found falling asleep a waste of time, lying in bed for half an hour thinking; with it back he sleeps much better, reading until his eyes start to close. — 00:08:59
  • Ali recommends the Kindle's highlighting feature: revisiting your highlights is a good way to take more from a book than reading it once. — 00:08:59
  • Ali says the Kindle changed his relationship with life: he can get almost any book within seconds of hearing about it, so a book a friend recommends is bought on Amazon at once and read within the week. — 00:09:28

Also named in: Monthly Favourites #2 - Ali Abdaal