Kindle Unlimited: How You Became My New Best Friend...!!!

From the times of gloriously licking and slurping every word off from the day's newspaper, I have now come to THAT place in my life where I get to lay my hands on a national daily only while aiming to dispose off soiled diapers.

And some headlines are such, they manage to jump at you and grab your eyeballs with their tiny invisible hands even in such uninhabitable conditions (ref: wrappings for soiled diapers).

It was one such headline that did the trick. It said something about a movie being made out of a book called: "How I Braved Anu Aunty & Co-Founded a Million Dollar Company" by Varun Agarwal. 

I have a thing for books. And when someone tries to turn them into movies, my attention is rapt and undivided. Not because I like movies better. In fact I feel movies murder the spirit of books, as has happened with most cases, except for "To Kill A Mocking Bird". It is because I like to see different renditions of the same story - powerful insights into human behavior, a subject I adore.

Now, this book had been leaping at me time and again during my frequent visits to Amazon, something I do on a regular basis, in order to build up my To-Read list (to be converted into Order Confirmation Receipts when I can procure the funds, in the form of Gift Cards from Mr. Husband; cuz all book lovers know, a bought book isn't as much fun to read ;)). But I somehow managed to douse it every time. Till now.

So, instead of Amazon guiding my search 'based on my browsing history' and being the more-than-perfect salesperson it is, I went online window-shopping and purposefully looked it up. 

And there it was, perched elegantly next to this book, vouching for itself, decorated with the golden words "Subscribers read for Free". Needless to say, it was the last word of this phrase that actually caught my awareness. Just the way it works for us Indians.

I looked it up. Kindle Amazon that is. There were three different memberships - Monthly, Half-yearly and Annual. Despite its uncanny and almost eerie resemblance to school examinations, which thankfully are no longer a topic of worry amongst the many others inside the channels of my brain (soiled diapers being the predominant one), I appreciate the concept. Try for a month, validate your potential and then decide if you have the digestive capacity to go longer-stronger.

Given how I am, I had no other option than to try the monthly one, for I have always belonged to that school of thought which professes: "once you own, all charm is gone".

And thus arrived Kindle Unlimited into my phone and my life. And I am so happy it did. Because:

1. All the time "Wasted" on useless internet stuff (read: scrolling) is now spent reading.

2. This gives me an elevated sense of self, that I am doing 'at least something for myself''.

3. It is bringing me a tad bit closer to my goal of finishing 12 books in a year, a resolution I have been making every time since the last 3 years, and have been missing by game point.

4. And last but of course not the least, because it has brought me back to my writing, to my beloved blog.

Book reviews coming up soon.

Soiled diapers aren't that bad after all...!!! 

:) :)