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Hello,

I would like to share my experience, in case it happens to one of you too,

I usually read my kindle in the bath, using a ziplock bag, unfortunately for avoiding having much air as possible in the bag I usually seal it with the help of the bath (the water pressure outside pushing out the air out of the bag). One day during my routine sealing I noticed a small amount of water in the bag (about 20~30 cc enough to wet the IO port and a good part of the keyboard).

it went that way :
- went out to immediately dry it in a regular fashion ( no hair drier blow )
- opened the kindle by popping off the back plate (kindle 3 wifi) to expose the circuit
- left it three days in the rice (in fear of not recovering it) in a sealed bag.
- after these three days the battery was out of juice, (tried different method to restart it), the only way for me was to dismount the battery the replug it, it would then accept charging, left it to charge until the led was green.

I recovered the kindle in a pretty good shape, the whole thing is very functional (yet?), keyboard/ buttons usb are still functioning, I didn't test the microphone yet but that is not a big loss right now. Since then I have avoided my bath reading sessions.

What I would have changed :
- After popping off the back plate, I am pretty sure I should have removed the battery, but I was damn too afraid to touch the electronics.
- dry the battery separately from the unit.

The thing almost gave me a heart attack. I don't think I would be trying my chance again.