It seems that we can’t help but fall into the habit of reviewing social networks every night before going to sleep, thinking that we aren’t sleepy anyway and we won’t be able to fall asleep right away. But this is a mistake because, no matter how much we look at our cell phone, the smartphone is not going to make us sleepy quickly, and we are going to end up losing valuable sleep time.
We already know that the most recommended solution to fall asleep is to read, for example on our Kindle. But this can be too boring, and we may not have enough motivation to read a book if our busy lives prevent us from following the thread.
It is for this type of situation that the We like to read so much or because we don’t have enough time at the end of the day to commit to a long novel.
This user, named Victoriano Izquierdo and co-founder of Graphext, reminds us that, in an ebook such as the Amazon Kindle, we can not only read books or novels, but also any other text document with the appropriate format. Therefore, why deal with an entire book when we can, for example, take advantage of that time to read journalistic articles, reports, blogs, scientific studies or any other type of literature other than the novel?
A different use for the Kindle
Izquierdo explains: «One of the best habits that I have managed to consolidate in 2024 has been reading on Kindle, instead of looking at my phone, before going to sleep. The trick is to read interesting long articles instead of books. In the end I can’t read more than 10-20 minutes before falling asleep (it works like a perfect sleeping pill, there are papers that I link later)».
The businessman points out that “with only 10-20 minutes a day to read it is impossible to read long books. I didn’t get hooked, nor did I learn anything. But there are a lot of interesting long articles online (new and old), which I usually find here on Twitter, in Substack, in Hacker News, in The Atlantic, New Yoker… So I have programmed myself with AI, on this vacation of Christmas, an app, calmdigest.com, to convert any URL into an ePub and it automatically sends it to your Kindle so that when you open it at night, you have interesting articles, and at the same time you are not so distracted during the day when you find them» , account Victorian in X.
In addition to this, the entrepreneur has also created a extension for chrome to be able to save articles with one click from the browser, as well as a shortcut for iOS with which we can do the same from our iPhone.
In responses to the tweet, many users have celebrated the idea, since above all it helps us obtain this type of online resources in epub format. You can read PDF documents on the Kindle, but this format is extremely uncomfortable to read from this device, so with tools like this, we can sleep comfortably with long articles from online media on our Kindle.
