Kindle

I was very very happy when I finally received my Kindle Touch on January 1, 2012, courtesy of my wife's cousin who came home to the Philippines from Chicago right around Christmas Day.

I've spent a month and a half daydreaming of my new Kindle and it was very surreal when it eventually landed on my palms.

UNFORTUNATELY, after only a month of use, the screen died (well, half of it did) on me. :( :( :(

Amazon has since replaced it with a new KTouch (they refused to allow an upgrade to a KFire), but the replacement unit is yet to make its way to the country since my friend is not leaving California before March 18.

I hope this one doesn't die on me for a few years, or several even, to come! I also hope my Kindle 3, now 14 months old, gets to see several more years of gadget life.

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Yesterday, at home, I turned on my Kindle 3's Wifi to download the new book/s I've purchased (for free) but it wouldn't detect my Wifi router. :(

I tried to rescan to no avail. I thought I might have set the SSID broadcast to DISABLED on the router, so I manually configured my Kindle's wifi. No dice.

Today it connected just fine to my office router and to the popular mall's free wifi.

When I got home, it still wouldn't even detect my home wifi router.

The solution that worked was this: Reboot the router.

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Charging History:

1. Dec. 18, 2010 - 2 days after receiving it with ~50% charge remaining. Of course, I had to tinker with it all the time, testing all features - Wifi, Text-to-speech, music player, internet browser.

2. Dec. 26, 2010 - One week in my hands and I've already loaded the Sambuhay missalettes for the Misa De Gallo masses, as well as some Sundays into January. Still playing around with it.

3. Jan. 31, 2011 - Yes, > 1 month, but of course, I would only turn Wifi on every morning at home/office, a few times at SM (to no avail - the login page won't allow me to log in. :( ). No music playing, no T-T-S. Only a few sessions at night.

4. Feb. 22, 2011 - around 5 hours charging time (started at 11pm, woke up before 6am and it was fully charged. Usage: almost daily Wi-fi just to download news, got to read a little bit of "My Horizontal Life" by Chelsea Handler, finally finished "Duma Key" by Stephen King. Started reading "What's Science Ever Done For Us?"

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I've finally given in. No, make that, I finally can afford it. Heh.

So last November 2010, I decided to ask permission from my wife, like I always do before purchasing gadgets, to buy myself a Kindle 3. And she'd lovingly replied, "Okay, happy birthday!" :D

See, ever since I read about the e-ink technology -- this was even before they've successfully made it commercial -- I've always wanted an e-book reader.

All the planets were in alignment -- a relative's son (let's call him "DH") was in the U.S. at the time, my wife gave her blessing, we had the budget, we had the means (internet access, credit card). All was a go.

So on the last few days of November, off to amazon.com I went, and lo and behold, the site mentioned that the Christmas shopping season was well on its way, and I'd have to wait at least two (2) weeks for the unit to be delivered (!!!). I told DH that he wouldn't have to bring me home a Kindle because his flight was scheduled for Dec. 14.

Good thing that after a few hours, Jing saw my sad status update on Facebook and pointed me to Amazon's Kindle 3 entry that said, "ONE DAY SHIPPING". HURRAY!!!

I hastily contacted DH and told him the good news (bad news for him, eh? :D ) and to make the long story short, by Dec. 16, 7:30pm I was holding my Kindle 3 in my hands. Aaaaahhhh... it was heaven!

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