How an E-Ink Reader Got Me Reading Again

I had not finished a book in months and blamed 'attention spans'. Then a friend handed me an e-ink reader, and the diagnosis changed: the attention was fine, the device was the problem.

A reader does exactly one thing and will never interrupt itself to show you a sale, a message, or a headline. That single-purpose calm is what an evening with a book felt like before phones - and apparently still does.

The numbers after two months: six books finished, phone screen-time down at bedtime, and one small realisation. The tools we blame are only tools; the trick is choosing ones that cannot argue back.