Regarding the new Kindle Update to make your Kindle keep being able to go online.
The first day I spent about 1 hour trying to update my kindle and my daughter's kindle that she stopped using about 6 months ago for whatever the reason and didn't recharge it. So, I plugged my recharge cord into it from my wife's computer and it took a few hours to recharge up to where I knew it was going to work. Then I tried to download the update to keep my kindle working online. No luck.
I finally gave up Monday feeling very untechie even though I have been programming and working on computers both hardware and software since 1966. However, that doesn't meant that(probably 20 generations of technology later it is all still the same because it isn't in most ways anything like what came before except in theory.
So, your 12 to 25 year old child likely can help you more regarding stuff like this than anyone else because they are the right generation to have picked up this generations technology and what it all means because believe me it can be very esoteric technically speaking.
So, yesterday I got a notice that my daughter's Kindle with a keyboard had successfully downloaded the update which allows it to go online. However, this didn't happen with my own simpler Kindle which is about 79.99 without a keyboard which my cousin recommended I get for my first Kindle, personally .So now, hers works and mine doesn't work online anymore. So, I found out that it is only through Wifi that you cannot update anymore. So, I connected it by recharge cord to my wife' big 27 inch Imac desktop and what happened?
What happened is I couldn't get it to operate with ANY controls at all while connected to the Computer. But, here's the catch. You cannot dowload now to correct the problem with your Kindle now to correct it after march 22nd unless It IS connected by wire to you computer.
So, if you believe you can't fix it you might be right and you might be wrong. For now, I'm writing off my old Kindle (as far as downloading new books to it). But, what actually happened is I looked in my daughter's archives and started downloading two Larry Niven books to hers that I hadn't downloaded yet that I bought last summer. Then I found out that these were listening books and Larry Niven was also narrating the books before he died. The Ringworld series of books is one of my favorite by the way. I believe it won the Nebula Award back in the 1970s.
So, if you are a science fiction fan you might like to read it if you haven't already or even if you read it back then and haven't read it again for 40 or 50 years.
To me, a Kindle's only advantage is I can make the print larger so I don't get a headache reading it. But, I enlarged the print on my old one but can't figure out how to enlarge print on my daughter's kindle keyboard. I can turn the view around in a circle but can't seem to get to how to enlarge the print. But, if I'm listening rather than reading this is okay too.
So, if you are happy reading a book in print still then maybe that is a more expensive but better way for you. Because Kindles as of yesterday became a complete pain in the ass for me.
(Even though I'm now listening to Ringworld narrated by Larry Niven which is fun too.)
So, out of frustration comes some good I guess, even if I can't get one of our Kindles to go on the internet anymore to buy more online books.
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