This is my daily user when I go to the park to read. It’s my first Kindle 3rdGen, (called Kindle Keyboard) that I bought way back in 2010.
The battery was going to crap (after 16 years!), so I replaced that and everything was great. But then I dropped it and cracked screen, so I replaced screen. And while I was doing that, I went ahead and replaced the keyboard since my other one was getting kinda crunchy.
Decorative skin was bought on ebay for $2.
Now it’s as good as new, and the charge lasts forever. I have lots more batteries and screens, so this will be read on until I die. These Gen3 kindles are the last model of Kindles I bought, because after this, self-repair was too much. I am trying to only buy/own things that I can self-repair from now on.
I don’t connect it to wifi (I don’t need Amazon snoopin on me), I copy all my DRM-Free books to the device directly from Calibre.
Whatcha reading?
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien.
It’s a post-apocalyptic survival fiction novel from the late 70s, told in first person by a teenage girl trying to survive on her own.
I’m really enjoying it! I have heard about this book forever, but never actually knew anything about it or read it before now. It was adapted to a movie with Margot Robbie, but it’s supposedly way different than the book. I heard it’s pretty decent. I’ll watch it after I’ve finished the book.