Embarrassed By What You’re Reading? Kindle Can Help.
There’s a wonderful post on the Amazon Kindle Official blog about hiding your reading material by using a Kindle. I can relate, since I read a lot of weird stuff (if you saw the same woman on the train every day and every day she was reading Stephen King, you might start to question her sanity). The author mentions reading He’s Just Not That Into You, which I also read and was embarrassed to be seen reading. However, it was co-written by one of my favorite comedians (Greg Behrendt, who once explained that you can get a man to go anywhere by saying the phrase “There might be cake.”) and I just had to read it. Instead of bringing it on the train like most of my reading material, I read it only at home to avoid being laughed at, even if it was only in my imagination.
The beauty of the Kindle is that you can read whatever you want, and no one can tell. The Amazon blogger says it’s going to allow her to feed her self-help book obsession. For me, it means I can read the new Oprah book club book, despite my dislike of Oprah, and not feel like a giant walking Oprah billboard. Or I can read the murder mysteries with the really grisly titles without feeling guilty when a small child passes me on the train.
In short, the Kindle gives readers an opportunity to read their guilty-pleasure books out in the open. What guilty pleasure books will you be reading on your Kindle?
