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jbcohen · 01-31-2011, 11:45 AM

Don't own a Kindle, but Consumer's Reports' opinion is a definite no. Personal opinion is -no. That said I would recommend you do what some people in the IT industry referr to as a burn in. Take the first month and run it raggaed, leave it on for twenty-four hours, use everything on the wifi possible, upload a book, take a book off the kindle, select every possible option on the menus (if there is a menu option for it use it), reset it once, play an MP3, look through some jpegs. In short in one month do everything you can to make it fail, if it survives then you don't need the waranty. If it fails your test the you probably should not have bought a kindle in the first palce.

I did this with my Libra pro and it showed a manufacter defect, and believe me Borders got an earful about that one. There second one survived and is still going.

01-31-2011, 11:45 AM	#2
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	Don't own a Kindle, but Consumer's Reports' opinion is a definite no. Personal opinion is -no. That said I would recommend you do what some people in the IT industry referr to as a burn in. Take the first month and run it raggaed, leave it on for twenty-four hours, use everything on the wifi possible, upload a book, take a book off the kindle, select every possible option on the menus (if there is a menu option for it use it), reset it once, play an MP3, look through some jpegs. In short in one month do everything you can to make it fail, if it survives then you don't need the waranty. If it fails your test the you probably should not have bought a kindle in the first palce. I did this with my Libra pro and it showed a manufacter defect, and believe me Borders got an earful about that one. There second one survived and is still going. Last edited by jbcohen; 01-31-2011 at 11:48 AM.