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Old 11-22-2016, 12:08 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Notjohn View Post
It seems improbable that Amazon was still having them built, six years after launch, so most likely they were overstock. It also seems improbable that Amazon would sell a device with a battery likely to die at any moment. This seems a huge vote of confidence in those early batteries.

There's a guy in Ebay selling a white Kindle 2 keyboard for $44.99, tee hee. Who would buy that but a formatter, I wonder? I figured I could pick one up for five or six dollars....
You know, it's hard to know. I do know that they were amazingly popular; we run across them with clients all the time. I don't discount how well all those devices held up--I still have my K2. The very first K2 I ever bought, the one that basically ended up "creating" my business. I went to PG to dl books, found that they were unsatisfactory to me, and started formatting them myself, back in the mobipocket days.

And that sucker STILL WORKS.

There are a lot of folks out here--I'd say it's more prevalent in the older generations--that don't throw something out, if it still works. You know, the old "if it ain't broke..."


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