The home screen of my Kindle Paperwhite comprises a single page (see above.) Hidden in my collections are three novels, two inspirational books, eight nonfiction books or articles, and one volume of poetry. That’s it. Everything else, all 856 items, resides in my Amazon archive in the cloud.
I used to have lots of pages on my home screen, but that felt cluttered. Now I have fewer choices when I pick up my Kindle. Fewer choices mean more focus. More focus enhances the attentiveness of my reading. It’s a big deal when I move a book from the cloud to my Paperwhite. It means, in all likelihood, that I will really, truly read that book.
I think of my archive as a personal Cloud Book Store, and it keeps growing thanks to Kindle Daily Deal temptations and other titles too good to pass up. When I finish a book on my Kindle, I make a visit to my archive and browse the cloud stacks for the next book I will bring home to earth for an uncluttered, satisfying read.
How many pages do you have on your Kindle’s home screen? How do you organize your reading between the cloud and your devices? If you, too, are a member of the One-Page Kindle Home Club, welcome!
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Do you not get many samples? I have pages of samples. I’ve created a ‘Samples’ collection, but it’s hard to keep up with organizing them.
But for books, I’m with you, I’m trying to keep them in the cloud.
Posted 11 Jan 2013 at 2:45 pm ¶Actually Jason, I don’t use samples much. Or if I do, I try a sample and then decide whether to get the book and delete the sample, so I don’t have an inventory of samples. Can you put samples in a Collection? I might try that.
Posted 11 Jan 2013 at 3:10 pm ¶Your home screen looks great, Len! You’re right: “Fewer choices mean more focus.”
I’m going to try to become a member of the One-Page Kindle Home Club!
Posted 11 Jan 2013 at 5:05 pm ¶My Kindle habits are the polar opposite of yours. I have 4 pages of collections of books that I really like and want to be able to access readily, though two of those collections are reserved for my niece and nephew (5 & 7 yrs old) as part of my bid in helping them become book lovers if not book worms.
Posted 11 Jan 2013 at 7:36 pm ¶I keep the books (yes, multiple) that I am reading on the next screen. I also use the samples a lot, downloading any that seem interesting (usually in batches of 15-20) delete the ones, where I didn’t like the style of writing or what have you and buy the ones that I really enjoyed.
I have about 1100 books in my cloud
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