Where e-readers go when they die

[SFG75]

Well, my first generation kindle gave up the ghost and died. You know the screensaver thingie? I hit the slider and half of it remained, while the text that I was reading appeared on other parts of the screen. I've unplugged it, left it off a week, recharged it after letting it run down, and of course, googled about it. The good news? Looks like Santa sees my woes and I will be upgrading. Sad to see the old one go.

-Is it weird to keep your old broken kindle on the bookshelf? I always noticed in old houses how people kept old hot irons for doorstops and the like. Maybe in a hundred years, we'll also see kindles become the same function, or at least, our children's children will.

 

[Meadow337]

My beloved beloved Sony Reader went the same way and I'm afraid I entirely lack sentimentality - they are in the bin. Unfortunately a new battery + the hassle of installation was more expensive than a new reader - go figure.

 

[SFG75]

I am hopeful that amazon outlasts my lifetime as a business. I'm not sure what will happen to the content if they ever went belly up due to derivatives trading or something.

 

[Conscious Bob]

'Dead Tree' books can easily be recycled, perhaps 'dead rainforest' might be more applicable to e-reader tech.

 

[Meadow337]

'Dead Tree' books can easily be recycled, perhaps 'dead rainforest' might be more applicable to e-reader tech.

I think that is a little unfair because I'm sure there are many parts of an e-reader, if not all, that can be recycled if you don't live in the back end of nowhere like I do. I know that computer parts are very recyclable.

 

[SFG75]

Kindle HD fire in hand, life is good now.

Seriously though, this is more of a tablet than a reader. I don't mind surfing the web, watching the videos, and the like, but this is not a reader. A point of minor quibble I know, but something I find disagreeable.