I bought my Kindle in 2009. I had saved up, working as a university ticket writer. Every time an errant driver would shout his head off at me, or I had to walk the lots in the pouring rain, or use chemical heaters in every pocket of my jacket just to stay warm, I thought about the Kindle I was pinching pennies for.
When it came in the mail it was in a soft brown cardboard box with pleasant white packaging on the inside. It took me all of five minutes to figure out how it worked. And I have since used my Kindle, this exact model, without interruption for almost six years now. In the world of consumer technology, that is an eternity.
The battery life - provided you turned the Internet off - was phenomenal. My Kindle could charge for 30 minutes and run for three weeks of nightly readings before needing another charge. I've never seen such a hard-working and efficient little device. I started to personalize it, the way crazy people do pets.
I took my Kindle to Aruba, and used the 3G there to write emails to my family when I couldn't find a decent internet cafe. I have brought it to on countless road trips, plane flights, and my Kindle was with me in Paris when the Charlie Hebdo shootings occurred. And more than all of this, my Kindle was beside me every night at home, through multiple moves, sparing me the great burden of every bibliophile: five boxes of books at least in a moving truck, every time, weighing hundreds of pounds. That's a lot of work. By contrast, my Kindle slips into my girlfriend's purse.
Well, Amazon, I know no one is going to read this review. And I know it probably won't help anyone, because who is really in the market for a six year old e-reader? But I did want to write this. I had to write this. Because after so many years, it's time to move on. My poor Kindle is starting to have trouble waking up in the morning. Sometimes the top bar disappears, and sometimes my Kindle forgets how many books it has. It's time to put my Kindle down for the last time, and pick up a new one.
That Voyage model is looking pretty nice.
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This is my first electronic book device and so far I LOVE IT! I wanted one for a while but was not ready to spend the money on one and I was torn between the kindle and the nook and just couldn't make up my mind. My husband bought the kindle for me for V-day and even made a custom scratch protector from [...] for it which I also LOVE and am glad he made up my mind for me, I love my kindle. I dropped the kindle hard upon the concrete patio when I first took it out of the box and it is fine; the kindle handled the fall better than I did by far. I freaked and bought a hardshell cover and a case right afterwards. Anyways, everything about the kindle is great and I really can get the whispernet anywhere on Oahu, try say that about your cell phone. There is not anything about my kindle that I dislike. It is so easy to operate and navigate around I have yet to read the instructions or the user guide. The only thing I find annoying is that I don't have an option to organize my content but I guess I can deal. By not organized I mean - my books are all in one big list like the main library of your itunes and that bothers me a little; might be OCD but I would like to have them in order of series, by author at the least like they are on my bookshelves. Anyways another bonus is that my friend has a nook (which looks cooler than the kindle and the menu has a color touchscreen, a built in dictionary and you can share your ebooks with friends with no added costs and well...whatever just google it) but my kindle's battery lasted longer and being around the military moving experiences very often - I don't have to worry about having restrictions on the ability to download and/or subscribe to new content if I am going to be outside the US or Canada which is good thing for me because we will be abroad next year for a few years. When making a recommendation to a friend I would tell them to decide between the nook and the kindle themselves and let them know that I LOVE MY KINDLE.
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