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Originally Posted by pdurrant

The Kindle 3 uses the standard Micro USB connector, introduced in 2007. You'll be seeing it in more and more places, as it's also the new standard for charging GSM mobiles.

Quite right, and also hard to find in most electronics stores here. And when they do have them they want a 500% markup from what's available on line, resulting in a dead battery for the time it takes to get one delivered.