My Kindle Lies

When I was reading Artemis Fowl on my Kindle, I checked to see how long it predicted it would take me to finish the book.  That's just another weird feature my Kindle has.  It said four hours.  Well, I'd be able to finish that in one day!  Four hours later, I hadn't finished it.  I even stayed up really late so I could read it.  The next day I read for an hour.  The next day I read for three and a half hours.  A few days ago I read for about four hours during the day and then a few more hours before I went to bed. 

When I was getting ready for bed, I looked to see how long it would take me to finish the book.  Thirty six minutes.  I almost wanted to read slowly to savor the last thirty-ish pages in the book.  I read really fast after [SPOILER] Butler got attacked by the troll and almost died because I had to see what happened [END SPOILER] but I will admit I considered putting my Kindle in a desk drawer and forgetting about it for three years.  However, I do have a paperback version of the book and nothing could have stopped me from reading it, not even a character almost dying. 

Anyway, I started reading at ten thirty and read until eleven.  I wasn't done.  I wasn't even near done.  I still had twenty seven minutes left.  What?  I had read for half an hour, I should have been nearly done.  At that point I hadn't slept well for a week and I had to go to sleep soon.  But I was reading Artemis Fowl, nothing could have stopped me from finishing it.  Not even sleep.  I even read during meals.  I was unstoppable. 

I read for another half hour.  Not done then, either.  So I read for another hour.  Then, after two hours of almost nonstop reading, I was done. 

So, either I fell asleep sitting up holding my Kindle and didn't notice or move for a about half an hour, or I was daydreaming way more than I realized.  Or I did that thing where it feels like I blink and then it's a few hours later.  I'll never know for sure. 

I've learned a valuable lesson:  If my Kindle says I'll be reading for an hour it actually means four.  Lovely.  Another thing I've learned from this experience is that I need to finish reading the series and I can't stop thinking about it until I do. 

Make sure you remember one thing if you have a Kindle Touch:  They lie. 

From now on I'm only going to be able to trust one thing on my kindle:  Time.  The actual clock time.  And I might not even be able to trust that because after daylight savings time stopped I never got around to resetting the time.  Now my Kindle is a completely unreliable storage unit for virtual books, imaginary books if you will.  At least I still have real books on real paper on a real shelf with a real clock by my bed.