My Mountain Trail

Travel Tales

My Kindle DX really let me down this evening. Here’s the story:

I have been in Philadelphia this week and am traveling home now (this was posted after arriving home). The weather wasn’t good in Pennsylvania so we were delayed a couple of hours by our late-arriving inbound airplane. Not fun, but understandable. Since I have been on a PHP/Javascript/Wordpress learning adventure for the last few months, I decided to download a new book on my Kindle for the ride home. Something about moving from coding to software development. Yeah, pretty geeky stuff.

Anyway, I bought the book, it downloaded to my Kindle, and I headed onto the airplane. Once in my seat I decided to log onto the internet using the Kindle’s browser. I figured I would do a quick search on google and then settle in for the plane-ride and read home. About 5 minutes into the very slow surf on Google, the kindle reset itself. And deleted all my books. Not good. But I have a few minutes to try to re-download the new book and a couple of others.

Long story short, I could not download any archived books. I could shop on the Amazon store, and even buy a book (now I own a book I don’t need and can’t read), but nothing would download. I am not happy.

All is not lost of course. Now I have the opportunity to complain about Kindle and upload it to my blog. I have a javascript book I can read. I can play around w/ some programming ideas. I have some photos to look at that I need to upload to Flickr. But my Kindle is in the doghouse, and Amazon is in the doghouse.

But wait! I just turned the Kindle on again to look at it’s blank face in dismay. Now everything is back! Great! But, I’m still annoyed at the scare, and now I have a book I don’t need. Oh well, just the cost of a programming/development problem on Amazon’s end I guess. Better start reading the developer book… And Kindle is still in my doghouse for a while. Bye bye!