Help me love my kindle 🥲

Hi all!

Big reader but have always used the Kindle app on my phone. I was gifted a paperwhite as a Mother’s Day gift and I want so badly to love it. My SO did so good being thoughtful and included a year of KU (I was previously mooching off a friend but to have my own was very kind of him).

Problem is I just don’t love it 😭 I miss the page turn animation the app has which seems like such a minor thing but it made it feel more like reading then scrolling to me. & I am constantly tinkering w the brightness and warmth trying to find what works for me. I keep telling myself I just have to keep using it but perhaps the biggest problem I’m having is comfort while using it. I tried raw-dogging it at first (no case) and it was very hard to hold and I dropped it and fumbled with it and every time I did the page would turn a ton and I’d get annoyed. So my friend told me to get a pop socket but I didn’t want to put a pop socket on the bare kindle so I needed a case. I found a flip case that had a little loop for my hand and thought it would be perfect but I put it on last night and the unbalanced weight of the kindle on one side just made the case constantly flop all over and that was so annoying I didn’t even want to use it. Plus the loop was in such a weird position I had to hold my wrist at a very weird angle to even use it and it really aggravated my carpal tunnel so my hand would go numb.

Do I need to just get a case with no cover and attach a pop socket to that? Will the screen be okay without something to cover it? Should I get a screen protector? Part of why I never made the jump get a kindle despite how much I read was bc I worried I’d hate it and now I fear that is coming to fruition 🥲 But my partner was so sweet and thoughtful in getting me this gift that I want to at least try to love it so please help me and give me all the tips to become an avid kindle fan 😭