My New Kindle!

 Christmas this year was a bit stranger than usual in that Mother wasn’t really “present” for the holiday. It’s never been her favorite even when her brain worked for her, but now that it’s questionable at best, we just didn’t bring the holiday to her attention. So it kind of snuck up on her. She apologized on Christmas Day for not getting us anything (we were totally okay with that) and gave each of us an envelope with a card and some money in it, telling us we should get ourselves something special “from Mom”.

I decided that with the money she gave me (and a few of my own dollars) I would get myself a new Kindle! My old one was like 7 years old and getting tired. So I took advantage of the Boxing Day Sales and ordered myself a brand new one! By accident, I ended up getting the teal colored one: I actually intended to get the black one. Oh well.

Shipping to Alaska is always questionable, for some reason, and sure enough the package containing both my shiny new Kindle and the fancy cork cover I got for it got lost somewhere. I think the robot on the other end of the chat session I initiated eventually said something about an accident on the road between them and me. Regardless, I requested a new pair be sent to me, and two weeks later they arrived.

Bryan worked on getting it registered to my Amazon account for probably two weeks. The darned thing just would not work. I tried to return it for yet another one, but was told that Kindles are “un-returnable” so we were stuck with the one that didn’t work. Thankfully, the original one I’d ordered eventually showed up! We were finally able to get that one connected to my Amazon account, so I am up and running.

The fancy cork cover I ordered was yet another disappointment. I apparently did not read the fine print closely enough and ended up with a cover that was too small for my shiny new Kindle. Upon closer inspection I found that the cork covers do not come in the size I need it to be, so I ended up ordering a nice leather one instead; it’s scheduled to arrive sometime next week. Unfortunately the original cork cover is also “un-returnable” so I will just have to eat the cost of it and chalk it up as a lesson hard learned: READ THE DISCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY!

Don’t even get me started on the protective screen covers I got: how something so simple can be so complicated is beyond me. I did eventually get the darned thing on, however, so I am now good to go.

Since I effectively ended up with two kindles and two covers, I do have to send one pair of them back. I plan on doing that sometime this week. Amazon gave me until mid-March to return them, so I’m not in a grand rush.