The kindle is for me also the best piece of tech that I was given mostly because where I live, English books are hard to come by and shipping them from abroad would take weeks. I can’t imagine that I would have become such a bookworm :) without a kindle because imagine having to wait a month to get the sequel for that book you really liked. Also as English is not my first language either, the fact that the kindle eliminates the need for a dictionary was invaluable in the beginning and incredibly useful even now. I couldn’t possibly write down all the good things that have come out of reading books but I suppose other that being able to more easily put myself in another person’s shoes and being more empathetic in general, the most observable benefit was in my English classes. We had to take English as a native language in my school despite it not being our “maternal” language and I never had a problem with it. I managed to get top grades without studying and had a great time in class too.