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Jun. 27th, 2013 12:56 amI have to admit I love tracking the Kindle DHL delivery every time I break a kindle way, way, way too much. It even beats watching rainfall radar and geotagged tweets. Mmmm. Hm-mmmm.
Edited to add: I swear that's not why I break them. I haven't even broken that many. This might be Kindle #7 on the way, but I only broke 3, maybe 4 of them.
Kindle #1 I had for the better part of a year when it just stopped working, for no reason. No break, no fall, no squiggly screen lines - just froze and wouldn't budge. Now - I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP - it was named Lenin (I name all my electronics after Bolsheviks. My MP3 player was Trotsky. At least, I used to) and the moment it stopped working was when I tried to connect to some random wifi network in, um, Red Square, Moscow. (NOT MAKING THIS UP.) So that one I think goes to tech-savvy ghosts of unburied revolutionaries protesting their fetishization.
Kindle #2 could not be shipped to Russia, so I asked them to ship it to Sweden where I knew I would be meeting a friend later on the same trip. Three weeks later, it still hadn't made it, because UPS or DHL or whoever it was, couldn't find his house. It was bouncing all over Sweden, and then just couldn't figure out how to get there. Finally, Amazon declared it lost in the mail and shipped me #3 (not taking any risks, I had them send it home to Israel.) On the plus side, a few weeks later they figured out how to find his house and delivered Kindle #2, so my friend got a kindle too.
Kindle #3 Served faithfully for some months, and then I broke it. No story, just broke it. Dropped, I think.
Kindle #4 duly arrived, but wouldn't charge up.
Kindle #5 duly arrived, and for a while I had a sad stack of broken kindles, before I shipped #3 and #4 back. (BTW, they no longer as me to do that.) It lasted a few months more, and then I broke it with my elbow. Not proud.
Kindle #6 still feels new. It's only been a few months. It's not even completely cluttered with weird crap I started reading but will never finish. I've been careful with it, i've been gentle. I went into the exam, it was fine. I came out, and somehow in the time it spent in my bag during, it was now broken. (I blame the stress.) It was also a 3G kindle, which doesn't work here and is completely useless to me in every way - in fact, worse than useless, because despite seemingly also having wifi, I could never get it to work because it insisted on trying the 3G. Still, you are mourned.
....So I totally only broke 3 and 5. I'm thinking, a few more Kindles and I can get them a time traveling soup can and start my own boring Doctor Who knockoff.
Edited to add: I swear that's not why I break them. I haven't even broken that many. This might be Kindle #7 on the way, but I only broke 3, maybe 4 of them.
Kindle #1 I had for the better part of a year when it just stopped working, for no reason. No break, no fall, no squiggly screen lines - just froze and wouldn't budge. Now - I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP - it was named Lenin (I name all my electronics after Bolsheviks. My MP3 player was Trotsky. At least, I used to) and the moment it stopped working was when I tried to connect to some random wifi network in, um, Red Square, Moscow. (NOT MAKING THIS UP.) So that one I think goes to tech-savvy ghosts of unburied revolutionaries protesting their fetishization.
Kindle #2 could not be shipped to Russia, so I asked them to ship it to Sweden where I knew I would be meeting a friend later on the same trip. Three weeks later, it still hadn't made it, because UPS or DHL or whoever it was, couldn't find his house. It was bouncing all over Sweden, and then just couldn't figure out how to get there. Finally, Amazon declared it lost in the mail and shipped me #3 (not taking any risks, I had them send it home to Israel.) On the plus side, a few weeks later they figured out how to find his house and delivered Kindle #2, so my friend got a kindle too.
Kindle #3 Served faithfully for some months, and then I broke it. No story, just broke it. Dropped, I think.
Kindle #4 duly arrived, but wouldn't charge up.
Kindle #5 duly arrived, and for a while I had a sad stack of broken kindles, before I shipped #3 and #4 back. (BTW, they no longer as me to do that.) It lasted a few months more, and then I broke it with my elbow. Not proud.
Kindle #6 still feels new. It's only been a few months. It's not even completely cluttered with weird crap I started reading but will never finish. I've been careful with it, i've been gentle. I went into the exam, it was fine. I came out, and somehow in the time it spent in my bag during, it was now broken. (I blame the stress.) It was also a 3G kindle, which doesn't work here and is completely useless to me in every way - in fact, worse than useless, because despite seemingly also having wifi, I could never get it to work because it insisted on trying the 3G. Still, you are mourned.
....So I totally only broke 3 and 5. I'm thinking, a few more Kindles and I can get them a time traveling soup can and start my own boring Doctor Who knockoff.
