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Just got a Kindle.

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Damn! I never did get a protective case or anything. My Kindle normally sits on my night table and nowhere else, but yesterday I stuffed it into a bag to read during a down time I had between shows. When I pulled it out of the bag, it had a broken screen.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, maxima mea culpa.

I have to assume I won't get any help from the warranty. Does anyone know if it's worthwhile to replace the LCD screen? To pay Amazon to do it, it would cost something like $110, IIRC--and for that kind of money, I'd probably just order a new one.

If there's not a relatively cheap DIY option, I'm definitely buying a new one, and I'm leaning toward getting the 3G. I see they've got a "special offers" 3G that costs about $25 less but will give you special offers and ads for the screensaver. I could live with that, I think.

Any thoughts?

And yes, I will get a protective cover for it!
 
I've heard that Amazon will be relatively easy on you replacing it under warranty for your first broken one. I've had no experience with it myself, just read it on the forum at Amazon. You would get a refurbished one to replace it.
 
RoboTimbo said:
I've heard that Amazon will be relatively easy on you replacing it under warranty for your first broken one. I've had no experience with it myself, just read it on the forum at Amazon. You would get a refurbished one to replace it.
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I will try that route first.

For truly is it not written, "What am I made out of money?"
 
My screen developed a large dead spot. Called Tech support at Amazon, asked me a few questions, and sent a new one out in 2 days, under warranty. Very pleasant folks. The new one worked for 20 minutes while charging, then went crazy with garbage on the screen. I called them again. Shipped the new one back at their expense, and had another new one two days later.

ETA: Lots of NYT crossword puzzles too for $2.00 or so. Recommendation: wash your hands before doing puzzles, because the letters get dirty and can't be easily cleaned.
 
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Yep, love that page, it has a very good section on how to organise your collections if you're into such things.
 
RoboTimbo said:
I've heard that Amazon will be relatively easy on you replacing it under warranty for your first broken one. I've had no experience with it myself, just read it on the forum at Amazon. You would get a refurbished one to replace it.
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Thanks for the tip. They are indeed sending me a replacement free of charge.

I also ordered a decent cover for it.
 
I'm at TAM without wifi access (mostly),and my Kindle has been invaluable for checking email, reading the forum, etc. It's by no means perfect, but the free 3G is fantastic.

(Posted from my Kindle. :)
 
I bought a 3G Kindle 2 for my mom for Christmas last year. I live in the US, she lives in Canada. Since I bought it, it was automatically tied to my account and I told her to leave that way in the short term as I had some books on my account she would probably like to read, but sooner or later, she should probably form her own account. I was visiting her this summer, so she asked me to help her form her own account. We set one up on Amazon.ca and then registered her Kindle to that account. But we quickly discovered that this altered the books which were available and the prices for the books (i.e. the out-of-copyright books which were free for me were now about a dollar for her). All of the titles she was interested in downloading were no longer available (these were newish books...from the last five years or so). So we just registered her Kindle back to my account so it would continue to offer the US selection and prices. But that was an eye-opener.

Linda
 
I'm in Canada, but mine is registered with my US Amazon.com account. I never thought about it, but I'm now glad I did it that way. :)
 
Linda, how complicated was it to change the registration? Is there any obstacle to frequently changing it?
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
Linda, how complicated was it to change the registration? Is there any obstacle to frequently changing it?
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It was easy to change - just "deregister" and then "register" (type in user name and password (the hardest part of which is the lack of a label on the number keys :))). I don't know if they keep track of frequent changes.

ETA: I googled the question and I didn't find anyone complaining that there were limits to how many times you can register/deregister. There were some people who described doing it frequently. As far as I could tell, content already on the Kindle could still be read (and that is what it says in the Kindle user guide as well) on a deregistered device.

Also my post above should be corrected to read "3G Kindle 3".

Linda
 
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JSFolk said:
I'm in Canada, but mine is registered with my US Amazon.com account. I never thought about it, but I'm now glad I did it that way. :)
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Problem there is, there's still some content they won't sell you if they know you live in Canada. I've run into this with a couple of new releases I wanted to buy, where the US and Canadian ebook rights were apparently different.

And of course, no one will ever tell you who you can actually buy the Canadian version from.....
 
Kindle owners who are SF fans might be interested in this:

http://www.sfgateway.com/

From the press release:

Gollancz, the SF and Fantasy imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, announces the launch of the world’s largest digital SFF library, the SF Gateway, which will make thousands of out-of-print titles by classic genre authors available as eBooks.

Building on the remarkable success of Gollancz’s Masterworks series, the SF Gatewaywill launch this Autumn with more than a thousand titles by close to a hundred authors. It will build to 3,000 titles by the end of 2012, and 5,000 or more by 2014. Gollancz’s Digital Publisher Darren Nash, who joined the company in September 2010 to spearhead the project said, “The Masterworks series has been extraordinarily successful in republishing one or two key titles by a wide range of authors, but most of those authors had long careers in which they wrote dozens of novels which had fallen out of print. It seemed to us that eBooks would offer the ideal way to make them available again. This realization was the starting point for the SF Gateway.” Wherever possible, the SF Gateway will offer the complete backlist of the authors included.
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