# Title Ideas 1. The biggest thing I hate about my Kindle 2. The worst part of owning a Kindle 3. This is the worst part about owning a Kindle <mark style="background: #FFF3A3A6;">4. This is the worst part about using a Kindle</mark> # Thumbnail Ideas - --- # Script ### Hook (First 7 seconds, confirm the click for title/thumbnail) The worst part about owning a Kindle is not the fingerprints, it's not lack of page turn buttons, it's not even the power button being located in the worst possible place. The worst part simply the fact that a Kindle is a piece of tech and will never compare to holding a real physical book in your hand. ### Open Loop (First 30 seconds, create an open loop) This month in my book club, we're reading a book called Shift by Ethan Kross, and it's all about emotions and how we manage them. There was one part the really stuck out to me that is directly relevant to Book Tech and why using Kindles and e-readers might not be very helpful. Let me break it all down for you, and don't worry. Even though there are some compelling reasons to avoid using tech for reading books, at the end of the video, I'm going to give my counter argument to everything. So be sure to stick around for that. ### Chapter 1: The Power of Our Senses - So in the book, we learn a lot about how emotions are this thing that for all of human history, we've struggled to control - We've come a long way in modern times, but emotions are a fundamental part of us that have remained the same - In fact, we can't control them, there's no on/off - At the same time, we sometimes go to great lengths to stop certain emotions or trigger other ones to come - Alcohol, drugs, etc - Even though we can't freely turn emotions on or off, we do have the ability to speed them up or slow them down - emotional regulation - One of the best ways to have influence over our emotions are through our senses - Using your senses is an underrated way to improve our emotional regulation - Usually reactive, but what if we did it proactively? - A few examples: - Example: going for a run, all of a sudden a hype track starts playing, and you get this sudden burst of energy and motivation. - Or maybe you're feeling jittery before a big presentation, putting on your headphones and listening to a slow tempo song can make a big difference - Example: you come home from a stressful day at work, instead of going about your night, what if we went for a short walk outside in nature to feel the sun shinning as it sets, that immediatey brings about a sense of calmness - The overall idea here is simple, emotions are a primal part of the human experience. We don't have the power to turn them off or on, but we do have the power to regulate them, and using our senses as a proactive way to do that is an ultimate life hack ### Sponsor message for one of my books - Just One More Chapter ### Chapter 2: That New Book Smell - So how does all of this relate to reading books? - The biggest reason I hear people say they don't want to buy a Kindle is because they like the feel of real books. - I've even heard people say they like the smell - Even though I understood that holding a real book does feel good, I didn't realize how much truth there was to this - Holding books, smelling them when you get a new one, flipping through the pages, writing in them with a pen, all of this activates our senses, which in turn directly impacts our emotional experience - Since physical books use more of our senses than an e-book does, it toally makes sense that we just feel a lot better when reading the phsyical copy of a book - When I first started my reading habit, I actually didn't own a Kindle yet, I read exclusively on physical books and getting a new book in the mail or at a bookstore was the best feeling ever - To this day, I miss that experience of getting a new physical book and flipping through it one page at a time. That's something my Kindle will never be able to replicate, and why real books will never go away no matter how advance technology becomes ### Chapter 3: Why Book Tech Still Wins - So with all this in mind, should we all abandon our e-readers? If the benefits of physical books are so important for our emotional experience, why bother with e-books at all? - you see that's what I thought too but there's also a downside of owning physical books and that is also part of the physical experience that you have to keep in mind - as I kept buying more and more physical books, I realized that the physical space that they were occupying was also having an emotional impact on me - it got to the point where I was no longer enjoying the aspect of getting a new book because the downside of having to store it and carry it around was even more annoying - even today I still find myself wanting to buy physical books but the thought of having to store it somewhere after I'm done reading it and likely never touching it again just makes me not want to buy a physical book ever again - when you combine that with all the benefits of using a Kindle (for example for taking notes and having a whole system in place for your highlights), it becomes hard to want a physical book over a Kindle book - the way I see it now is I think reading on physical books is still a wonderful way to fall in love with reading and I think that is something everyone needs to experience at the beginning - but once you already have the reading habit in place, the advantage of using technology really does outweigh the physical aspects - still I find myself wondering if I can maybe go back to physical books when I read fiction or books that I don't plan on taking many notes with. That might be a good compromise - I'd love to hear from you. What are your thoughts on this topic? Are you a proponent for physical books or e-books? Leave a comment down below ### Lead into another video - if you are interested in learning how I built a system around using a Kindle for all my highlights and notes so I always remember everything I read, check out this video on the screen right now to learn more --- Related Notes: - [[2026 Videos]] This note was originally created on **March 13, 2026**.