I’ve been considering an E-book reader for a while – something to use for the PDF references I have; often times I don’t want to share screen real estate on my MacBook Pro with a PDF manual.
Looked at the Sony readers, but wasn’t impressed – liked the E-Ink screen, but the PDF rendering was horrific.
Amazon’s Kindle sounded intriguing; PDF support, while experimental, is supposedly usable, and the “WhisperNet” concept of using EVDO to access material (and the web) without monthly fees is intriguing.
So I ordered one, and it appeared today, far ahead of the expected December 10 delivery date my order claimed. Cool.
Until I tried to use it.
Your Kindle is unable to connect at this time, please try again later.
Uh, oh.
Good cellular signal – impressive, since I’m in a windowless dungeon – but no go. Reset, no luck. Re-enter login info. Nope. Punt and call Amazon. Quickly put through to support – US-based – and explain the issue. I never have easy problems. I realized the ESN/serial number on the Kindle are different than what the Amazon web site has.
Well, that explains it. Amazon Support generated a ticket to update it. They said this problem is considered “top-priority” and should be fixed soon.. We’ll see..