Sunday 05/24/2026
Usual Sunday morning. Largely a quiet day, nothing scheduled. I do not deal well with leisure. Joanne says I am “task oriented”. Sounds right. I get upset and depressed at the end of a day when I realize I didn’t do anything I would call worthwhile. OK, I did practice guitar.
And I killed my Kindle. This was a Kindle Fire tablet, the original 9-inch tablet from about 2012. It was bought new by my late brother-in-law, and his wife gave it to me. I’ve kept it by my bed for bedtime reading for at least a decade.
But the battery was starting to fail, and Amazon has announced the end of support for it. I had started to read up on how to jail-break it, so I could read non-Amazon ebooks. But first I wanted to replace the battery. I bought a new battery install kit for it. Watched the video on how to do the replacement.
I did the replacement and it seemed to go well. When I hit the power button, it booted up, the screen lit up, all looked good. Then I discovered that the touch screen was not responding. However I tapped or swiped, no reaction. Unfortunately the touch screen is the only input it accepts. If you can’t tap or swipe, you can’t do anything. I took it apart again and reassembled it twice, checking carefully that I had reattached all the cables. No dice. “It’s dead, Jim.” I took it to the basement where Facilities has a closet for collecting e-waste. RIP Kindle.
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