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So, my Kindle died in Kyrgyzstan, the casualty of our very late cabdriver aggressively shoving my backpack into the trunk of his taxi at an angle because the trunk was already occupied by a large button accordion. He threw my backpack in first, then dropped the 90L duffel bag on top of it, and shoved, and there was a crack. I’m glad it wasn’t my camera; the corner of my DSLR’s frame is what broke the Kindle’s screen, I think, and all told I’m glad the $1200 DSLR body wasn’t what gave, there.
Anyhow. I was going to buy a new one, but they’re releasing a waterproof model on Nov 7th. I thought about it, hadn’t made a decision. Then, this visit, I spent so much time reading to Farmkid, my sister was like, well, normally we try to slip you some cash when you leave, but if you want, this time we could just buy you a new Kindle, since you miss yours so much.
So I was going to let them do that, but then Middle-Little was like, “wait, I found a Kindle in one of the classrooms at the college where I worked, and I very conscientiously attempted to email every professor whose classes had used that room and we were unable to find any student who admitted to having lost a Kindle, so I still have it, do you want it?”
This seemed like a great solution, so she gave it to me last night and I’ve been trying ever since then to wake it up and restore it.
It’s super old, I think– it’s got keys to type with, not a touchscreen, and there are buttons to turn the pages. It’s very elderly.
I wouldn’t mind that, but it seems to me that the wifi doesn’t work. I’ve tried an obnoxiously large number of times to type in the extremely obnoxious wifi password here, and it acts all happy like it’s accepted it, but it doesn’t actually connect, and if you try to do anything it pops up an error that it’s not working.
I managed to wipe the existing information off– it didn’t have the student’s name or information anywhere, it had a nickname, and the books on it were 100% novels, no textbooks. It contained Fifty Shades Darker, Thirteen Reasons Why, and a few other names I vaguely recognized and was not excited about, so.
So I reset it to factory defaults, and have restarted it several times, but there’s been no improvement– it can’t connect to the Internet. The top bar shows the “WI-FI” icon, and displays five bars of connection strength, but the device still pops up and says “no connection” anytime you try to do anything.
So– I can use it to put PDFs onto, certainly, but I can’t connect it to my Kindle account and can’t buy new ebooks on it. Which is a shame.
It’s not useless, but it’s not really suited for my purposes either. What I liked best about using the Kindle I had was that it would sync with my phone and computer, so if I was reading something, I could pick up where I left off on any of my devices. This clearly won’t be able to do that. The other thing I really liked is that I could buy stuff on my computer, and then later when I was out and about, pick up my Kindle and tell it to sync and I’d have the book I’d been waiting for. (I preorder stuff a lot.)
So I think I’ll still buy myself a new Kindle, but I might try to load this one up with public-domain books.
I have a feeling the battery has been negatively impacted by being left completely dead for several years, but maybe I just haven’t let it totally charge up for long enough.
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So, my Kindle died in Kyrgyzstan, the casualty of our very late cabdriver aggressively shoving my backpack into the trunk of his taxi at an angle because the trunk was already occupied by a large button accordion. He threw my backpack in first, then dropped the 90L duffel bag on top of it, and shoved, and there was a crack. I’m glad it wasn’t my camera; the corner of my DSLR’s frame is what broke the Kindle’s screen, I think, and all told I’m glad the $1200 DSLR body wasn’t what gave, there.
Anyhow. I was going to buy a new one, but they’re releasing a waterproof model on Nov 7th. I thought about it, hadn’t made a decision. Then, this visit, I spent so much time reading to Farmkid, my sister was like, well, normally we try to slip you some cash when you leave, but if you want, this time we could just buy you a new Kindle, since you miss yours so much.
So I was going to let them do that, but then Middle-Little was like, “wait, I found a Kindle in one of the classrooms at the college where I worked, and I very conscientiously attempted to email every professor whose classes had used that room and we were unable to find any student who admitted to having lost a Kindle, so I still have it, do you want it?”
This seemed like a great solution, so she gave it to me last night and I’ve been trying ever since then to wake it up and restore it.
It’s super old, I think– it’s got keys to type with, not a touchscreen, and there are buttons to turn the pages. It’s very elderly.
I wouldn’t mind that, but it seems to me that the wifi doesn’t work. I’ve tried an obnoxiously large number of times to type in the extremely obnoxious wifi password here, and it acts all happy like it’s accepted it, but it doesn’t actually connect, and if you try to do anything it pops up an error that it’s not working.
I managed to wipe the existing information off– it didn’t have the student’s name or information anywhere, it had a nickname, and the books on it were 100% novels, no textbooks. It contained Fifty Shades Darker, Thirteen Reasons Why, and a few other names I vaguely recognized and was not excited about, so.
So I reset it to factory defaults, and have restarted it several times, but there’s been no improvement– it can’t connect to the Internet. The top bar shows the “WI-FI” icon, and displays five bars of connection strength, but the device still pops up and says “no connection” anytime you try to do anything.
So– I can use it to put PDFs onto, certainly, but I can’t connect it to my Kindle account and can’t buy new ebooks on it. Which is a shame.
It’s not useless, but it’s not really suited for my purposes either. What I liked best about using the Kindle I had was that it would sync with my phone and computer, so if I was reading something, I could pick up where I left off on any of my devices. This clearly won’t be able to do that. The other thing I really liked is that I could buy stuff on my computer, and then later when I was out and about, pick up my Kindle and tell it to sync and I’d have the book I’d been waiting for. (I preorder stuff a lot.)
So I think I’ll still buy myself a new Kindle, but I might try to load this one up with public-domain books.
I have a feeling the battery has been negatively impacted by being left completely dead for several years, but maybe I just haven’t let it totally charge up for long enough.
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