>>2122889I've done both in various scenarios.
I often will book a hotel for a week as a kind of sabbatical. On some trips I've taken physical books. Other trips I took my Kindle. I preferred the Kindle. It was easier to lay in bed and hold it up without my wrist becoming strained. I could also download a book on my laptop spontaneously and load it onto the Kindle. With physical books, you're stuck with the collection you brought.
One time I booked an AirBnB for a month. It was a cabin in Missouri and didn't have electricity -- kind of. There were LED lights that charged during the day, but that was basically it. There was an outlet but I never bothered with it and honestly I don't know what it was for. I really didn't care. I ate a lot of crackers and canned food and dried fruits and nuts. I had eggs for the first week. Granola bars, trail mix, tuna and salmon pouches, tortillas, peanut butter, etc. You stop eating meals and just eat like 6-8 times a day in smaller portions. A spoonful of peanut butter, a handful of crackers, a pouch of tuna, a bag of fruit snacks, etc.
Before I arrived, I filled a plastic container with old mass-market paperback books that had yellow, stinky pages and some of the pages had released from the cheap, glue binder. When you closed the book, they would annoyingly stick out. When I would finally finish a book, I threw it into the fire. It was oddly cathartic. Fires are mesmerizing. There's so much random shit going on. I figured if I ran out of toilet paper that I'd have a back-up in the books that had yet to be burned.
Anyways, finishing a book and burning it was like being rewarded with 5 minutes (give or take some minutes) of fireworks. If you've never done it, I encourage you to. It's extremely comfy. I'd never take a Kindle in that scenario. I want away from technology when I go innawoods or stay at a cabin or whatever.
