Swap my Kindle battery
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5th-June-2022
Last week Amazon has annouced its decision of exiting its Kindle service from
China. This reminded me my 10+ years old Kindle3 and Kindle Fire HD, It's in
the dust for years already and battery are dead. I searched on Taobao.com and
*of cause* I could find them, with 50RMB for each battery I ordered 3 pcs(I
have two Kindle3 and one Fire HD).
In this weekend I had time to swap them, It's quite easy(they ship the batter
with a case open tool), in about an hour, two of them are reborn with fully
energized battery, one of the Kindle3, couldn't survive as I just realized
after the battery is on--the E-ink is down. Other than that, all good, they
find a new life, even though I don't use them too much nowsdays.
My feeling is Amazon quit it's Kindle business simply due to its adaptability
failure in China, in ten years ago, Kindle in China was the leading service
provider on e-books publishing, since then, there is hardly change on how it
serves the Chinese readers. Yet very soon other hardware provider and service
provider appears serving detailed segements of readers, eventually Weread from
Tencent is expanding its business so fast by combining it's social elements
(the Wechat Moment Env.), actually more than that, its anotation is much more
easier than Kindle, and more accessible to all readers and allow readers to
interact with each other. However the quite attractiveness is also on the
yearly subscription fee, with 168RMB/year you could read most of their on shelf
books, I gradually transfered to Weread as most the books I want to read are
there on shelf with my yearly subscription, I could interact with my friends
on sharing my thoughts and comments on certain books. I could also just switch
to any phone (oh yes, copy of Kindle service), and any other e-Ink device to
read them, actually I'm alomost finshed reading the Three-body Problem on my
Hisense e-Ink Phone, very handy.
Even I switch mainly to Weread, I still cherry the old good times with Kindle,
where I did most of my readings on in past 10+ years.
But now and then, I do take them off my book shelf, blow away the dusty, and do
short readings on them, just feels right!
