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Originally Posted by Alisa
I'm very picky about light, but like you say, I do read for long periods. There's a huge range of light quality and color with CFLs. Some flicker. Some take a long time to get to full brightness. Aside from just reading, they can really change the feel of a room for me. I've had some bulbs that made the room look dingy and depressing, others that were so bright blue everything looked cold and sterile. They've gotten better over the years, though. The first generations were horrible.
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Fair enough. I changed every bulb in my condo (except for one that's on a dimmer that I use when watching movies at night) to CFLs and really didn't notice a difference. But I'm not picky about light, and actually like to keep the place pretty dim most of the time. So that's probably the difference.
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Originally Posted by Astabeth
Thank you all so much for all the advice. I actually bid on a Kindle 1 on eBay last night, but lost.  I will probably try again once I'm back from my trip next week. |
There's always a flurry of bids in the last 2 minutes. You won't win one (without an outrageous bid) without being online with a good connection and doing the 1 click bids over and over the last couple of minutes enough times until you finally win one.
Problem I had was the ones I tried for were ending up in the $235-250 range, and my limit was $200. So I turned to Craigslist and had good luck, but as you said in the other thread that doesn't work for those of you not in major cities where there are a lot of kindles listed.
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Originally Posted by sirbruce
That would cover a bad battery.
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It would cover a defective battery, but would it cover one that died late in the warranty which would indicate that it had just hit is 300 (or however many) max charges?