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The Reader’s Edge | Charlie Samways | May 3, 2026 | Every new device arrives with a promise that it will change how you read, write or think. The first few days deliver on this. Then life takes over, and most of what the device can do goes quietly unused. This hit
The Reader’s Edge | Charlie Samways | April 26, 2026 | Amongst tech lovers, there is genuine excitement whenever new devices are unveiled. This happened for Kindle users in December 2025, when the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft launched. But to Kindle followers outside of the US, temptation grew as Amazon kept quiet about
The Reader’s Edge | Charlie Samways | April 19, 2026 | In 2009, Amazon remotely deleted copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from customers' Kindles without warning, after a rights dispute. The books had been purchased. They were simply gone. That story is circulating again this week,
The Reader’s Edge | Charlie Samways | April 12, 2026 | As soon as you find routines that make your life comfortable, it’s easy to hold onto them. Comfort is efficient. It saves energy, reduces friction, and lets you move through your days without unnecessary resistance. The problem is that comfort
The Reader’s Edge | Charlie Samways | April 5, 2026 | Every great reader I have come across has one thing in common. They don’t just read books, they wrestle with them. If I ever take the effort to engage with a book through annotation, making notes, or highlighting, I always
