Originally Posted by Brass Drag0n:
“Another dead Kindle owner here - I see in that BBC report that Amazon expect a Kindle to last an average of 3 years!!! Thats not what you'd call a long time.
My Kindle Keyboard lasted 2 years and 8 months so pretty much in the "death zone".”
Mine is pretty much the same age and still alive and kicking, knock Kindle plastic. But the battery is getting weaker and I have to charge it more often. And when turning pages especially right after waking it up, sometimes the display goes black randomly. This can be fixed by turning to another page and back, though.
But this is a common strategy today, products are made to fail/ not to last. Everybody wants you to keep updating your devices every 2-3 years. At least Amazon has a very good technical support.