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Oh how I love my Kobo Glo. Not because it's a Kobo, in particular, but because it enables my reading addiction. I read all the time. I don't need to turn on the light. I don't need to find or bookmark a page. I don't need to get up and get another book from the bookshelf. I read and read and read. In fact, since I bought it 20 months ago I have read more than 800 hours, which is, on average, approximately an hour twenty a day. Every day. For approximately 600 days. Which is quite a lot. I have devoured books, series, all genres. I have read genres I used to scoff at: historical fiction and fantasy, for example. I have read 58 books on it. Which doesn't really sound as much as it is, when you consider that the majority of those books were longer than 900 pages (Diana Gabaldon, I'm looking at you).

I really enjoyed so many of the books and series I read - books I didn't necessarily expect to enjoy so much: The Goldfinch, The Luminaries, The Miniaturist, The Other Boelyn Girl, Outlander series, Kvothe series, Magician series, Eragon series. Some were re-reads from teenage years (LOTR, Clan of the Cave Bear), others were just refreshing reads, after a particularly long and somewhat arduous (in a good way) book (Diana Gabaldon, again, looking at you). In fact there has been only one book I didn't enjoy and didn't actually finish - the cringe-worthy and extremely poorly-written 50 Shades. Yeuuck.

So, I sewed my Kobo Glo a cover. And then I sewed one for my sister's. They have magnets in them, making them turn on and off automatically upon opening/closing. They worked out pretty well. Mine used a cover from an old hardback, which was better than the stiff card I used for my sister's.