Last Friday I detoured through a couple of yard sales on my way to work. Among the booty was a $10 Kindle Touch 3G, complete with folder, case, charger. It was discharged, and could only show a sad battery picture on its face.
I charged it, and found that it worked just fine, it even had a few books and games left on it. I upgraded the firmware to the latest, in three stages, and got it registered to my wife's Amazon account. I also had to deploy a newer wifi AP in our house, it really wasn't enjoying our old one. Anyway, it works great. I _really_ like the readability of that kind of display technology. The lack of color is not an issue for me, I'm a black-and-white kind of guy. Currently I'm re-reading Moby Dick (free!) on it. Love that book. The reason for the new wifi AP (the 3G phone connection is otherwise good enough) was so that I could use its web browser. Rudimentary, but it works. The other notable score was a Slim Whitman LP, which I have been keeping an eye out for since our last Mars Attacks watching. Put smiles on my family's faces when those dulcet tones came wafting upstairs from the basement sound system! -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
