My Kindle Fire is soon to die. Last night, reading on it just fine. This morning:
My husband managed to restart it and it looks completely normal again, but I immediately transferred a copy of all the files onto my desktop for safekeeping. I have a hundred forty-five books on my e-reader. Most of them of course, I could locate and re-download from Project Gutenburg or the Internet Archive but that would be a pain. I always figured the downside of having books on an electronic device would be: if your device gets lost or broken, you\’ve maybe lost all those books. Now this is looking me in the face.
I\’m expecting there will soon be a day I can\’t turn my e-reader on at all, and then I\’ll have to get a new device to transfer all the book files to. I\’ve had my Kindle for eight and a half years- I think that\’s a pretty good lifespan. I really don\’t use it very often; if it was in constant use probably would have died on me a whole lot sooner.