Today I finished reading a book and since I was a bit busy I decided to leave a rating on my phone before I forgot and then write my review when I could get on my computer. After posting is when I found out that you get 1 point for ratings and 5 for reviews, but you only get the 5 points for leaving the review if you leave it at the same time that you're rating it but not after. I don't leave a lot of reviews and usually if I do I leave it at the same time as my rating so I wasn't aware of this until now, so I guess this counts as a little PSA for anybody else who didn't know :P

Okay so - I already owned a kindle which I bought 2 years ago, a 11th gen paperwhite, and it's perfectly fine. HOWEVER. Back when I bought it, I had no idea that other ereaders besides kindles even existed - which I could kick myself for, because I would've loved having a Kobo but by the time I learned about Kobos it was too late :') Ever since I first got my kindle, I was annoyed by how locked down it was, and how any time you're not in a book it's trying to sell you something, but I endured. Well! Fast forward to last week, and I finally got around to jailbreaking it and I love it now. I'm free from Amazon's shackles, and can load all my books onto my kindle without having them encrypted and it's so straightforward and easy. But it was only a few days after I jailbroke that I was like - okay, I need a backup incase anything ever happens to this one, since I know that of course Amazon won't just let us get away with this. So I went on ebay, bought a 4th gen kindle (the one with all the buttons on it) for $20, and not even two days after I bought that kindle there's an update that Amazon released an update that prevents people from jailbreaking and potentially even breaks kindles that are already jailbroken upon update (luckily for me, I already had mine set up to block updates, but it was a really close call). So I really patted myself on the back there for having the foresight to get a backup just in case. You might be wondering why I bought another Kindle if I was already complaining about Amazon's lockdowns, but trust me, I did my research, I knew my budget, and the 4th gen was the best pick for me - abandoned by amazon so doesn't get updates, fully functional, right AND left-handed buttons(!! Huge for me, as a leftie), and only $20 to boot. I was sold! And so it was only a matter of jailbreaking it, which is still possible since, again, it doesn't receive updates. I got it in the mail today and feverishly went through the complicated set-up and jailbreak process and voila, successfully running on KoReader and downloaded my books onto it. I love it!! I cannot even tell you how much I missed buttons and I absolutely adore the chrome casing. I'm so excited to read on it!