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Tue May 13 12:00:07 EDT 2014
Please verify that your Kindle is registered and that your wireless is connected to receive the latest Special Offers.
Apparently my Kindle has been off the Internet long enough to exhaust its cache of ads to show me. Much of what I use it for doesn't involve Internet access. Silk is not my favorite browser. Downloading podcasts is on-line; playing them is not. Watching TV shows from my DVR doesn't need the network. (Transferring them over WiFi takes a very long time (although not as long as transferring them over Bluetooth).)
I've still got lots of unheard podcasts, and I can live without new ads.
I realize the trade-off of the Kindle's competitively-low price is being subjected to Amazon's ads (which can be removed, for a price), but the Kindle wasn't my pick; it was a gift from work. And ads are almost never my pick.
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/669575.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
Please verify that your Kindle is registered and that your wireless is connected to receive the latest Special Offers.
Apparently my Kindle has been off the Internet long enough to exhaust its cache of ads to show me. Much of what I use it for doesn't involve Internet access. Silk is not my favorite browser. Downloading podcasts is on-line; playing them is not. Watching TV shows from my DVR doesn't need the network. (Transferring them over WiFi takes a very long time (although not as long as transferring them over Bluetooth).)
I've still got lots of unheard podcasts, and I can live without new ads.
I realize the trade-off of the Kindle's competitively-low price is being subjected to Amazon's ads (which can be removed, for a price), but the Kindle wasn't my pick; it was a gift from work. And ads are almost never my pick.
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/669575.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]