I read a combination of ebooks and print books. I was slow to move to Kindle reading because I love ink on paper, but now enjoy the advantages of a simple e-reader.
What I like most about Kindle and reading Kindle Books:
- Simplicity. Connect it to an Amazon account and charge it. That is all you have to do to take care of your Kindle.
- Flexibility. You don’t need a Kindle to read Kindle books. You can download them right to your computer or iDevice and read them with a free Kindle App.
- Affordability. Kindle books start at the low low price of FREE. With so many great authors self publishing, pricing is more affordable in most cases compared to print books.
- Ease. You can send a Kindle book as a gift just like a print book. It arrives immediately and there are no shipping costs.
- Space-saving. Picture a busy bookcase. Now imagine that it fits in the palm of your hand. I know you love your books, but what you love most about them are the stories and those can all be delivered via Kindle.
If you have a little downtime coming up or are determined to build in pockets of solitude for reading, here are a few books you might enjoy to inspire simplicity and support your journey to live with less.
Best Kindle Books to Inspire Simplicity
Living With Less: An Unexpected Key to Happiness (Simply for Students) by Joshua Becker. In Living With Less, Joshua will guide you through biblical teachings on possessions and his own personal experience with minimalism living with only the essential. You’ll see how his life was transformed by this Jesus-centered choice that rejects the flow of our culture.
You Can Buy Happiness (and It’s Cheap): How One Woman Radically Simplified Her Life and How You Can Too by Tammy Strobel. In this book Strobel combines research on well-being with numerous real-world examples to offer practical inspiration. Her fresh take on our things, our work, and our relationships spells out micro-actions that anyone can take to step into a life that’s more conscious and connected, sustainable and sustaining, heartfelt and happy.
The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide: How to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify Your Life by Francine Jay. Ready to sweep away the clutter? Just open this book, and you’ll be on your way to a simpler, more streamlined, and more serene life.
Simplicity: Essays by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus. In the two years since the authors quit their six-figure corporate jobs and embraced simpler lives, they have written more than 200 essays on the subject of simple living. Simplicity: Essays serves as a “best of” collection for their most important collaborative writings.
The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential…in Business and in Life by Leo Babauta. The Power of Less demonstrates how to streamline your life by identifying the essential and eliminating the unnecessary freeing you from everyday clutter and allowing you to focus on accomplishing the goals that can change your life for the better.
The Minimalist Mom’s Guide to Baby’s First Year: How to create time, space and money by Rachel Jonat If you want to enjoy those first months and year with your new baby, if you want a relaxed and restful pregnancy, if you want less clutter and more sleep, this book is for you.
Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin. In Your Money or Your Life, Vicki Robin shows readers how to gain control of their money and finally begin to make a life, rather than just make a living.
My books on Kindle
I’ve written and self published three books for Kindle to help you keep things simple. Each book is available for less than a dollar through the end of 2012. If you read the books, let me know what you think and if you have questions.
Simple Ways to Be More with Less If you have imagined a life with less, reading this book is a great way to get started. Most of us have lived our adult lives working more, to make more, to spend more, to have more. We haven’t done it maliciously, but out of habit. Our parents wanted better for us and we want better for our children, but somewhere along the way we forgot what better was. As you go through the Be More with Less process, you will subtract things from your life, and add other things (which aren’t really “things”) back in.
I still visit the library and love supporting authors and local book stores by purchasing books, but also appreciate the benefits that reading on a Kindle has to offer.
What are you reading right now?