What are you reading at the moment?

watermeadow, I too much prefer a material book, but tiny print giving you eye strain??
Kindles are not that complicated.

watermeadow

A Kindle? That suggests technology and complex things I don’t understand and things going wrong and expense.
Books are old friends. Kindles are aliens.

If you could get a look at someone else's Kindle and see how it works, you would probably find it a lot simpler that you expect. They are hard to get wrong!

Your book is downloaded to the kindle automatically, and appears in your contents list. You click on its name and it opens. Then you click on the righthand side of the page to turn over to the next page, or onthe lefthand side to go back one. You can make the font several sizes bigger - up to just a few words on the page, which you could read from the other side of the room.

Also, they hold hundreds of books, and you have access to lots of free versions of classic books, like the ones you listed in your post which you prefer reading.

watermeadow

A Kindle? That suggests technology and complex things I don’t understand and things going wrong and expense.
Books are old friends. Kindles are aliens.

Presumably you are using some form of technology already, as you are on here - Kindles are no more complicated. If you can use a computer of any kind or a mobile phone, you can use a Kindle. Don't get me wrong, I love a 'proper' book, but I would not be without my Kindle now, especially when I'm away from home.