On the Road Again!

Still 5 days to go in 2025 and so far I am well up on books read. For quite a few years I was unable to link Amazon to Goodreads. But now I can. Only 5 other people read the Spider McGee book!  Sometimes being in a minority isn't too bad!! What Goodreads doesn't know is how much of my disposable income has vanished into Bezos' bank account with all these Kindle books, not to mention the new Kindle I bought with my premium bond win!!! Update 31/12/25 - 85 books read.

I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than read anything E L James "writes". 

Powered up this morning and it did an OS upgrade. It was unclear what all the updates were, but when I opened the music app and 💥!   It works. Superb. I have created a second login using my Prime Amazon login, my main one is much older and is used for Blogger and Kindle, so that I can shop Prime and access Prime Video. That worked immediately. So we are off and running.

With my Kindle playing up and it seemingly not going to be easily repairable I saw on Amazon's Black Friday page that they had a Fire 7 tablet 8gb for £24.95 and 16gb for only £29.95. So I bought it. Then I fixed the Kindle.  The Fire went away for a Christmas present. So here we are. The Fire 7 is expandable with a Micro SD slot. I switched the 64gb card from my Canon DSLR and formatted it. What's it like to use? It is quite heavy but strangely more comfortable in hand than the Google Nexus 7. The apps pre-loaded are all Amazon related. I bought it primarily to replace the Kindle and maybe add Amazon Music. That would give me one bit of tech to cover two uses. The Kindle bit works perfectly well.  The "Silk" browser works okay and so does the email app. But.  The music app won't sync with my account.  😈 You would think if the Kindle app works, music ought to as well. The shopping app works with the correct account and shows all my or...

Thursday .  Turn my old Kindle on to download a new couple of books and nothing happens. Check the "settings" menu and the WiFi setup has gone. What? A few attempts at getting it to restart were ineffective. Then I see on Amazon Black Friday the Fire 7 tablet for sale at £29.99.  Mmmmm?  It will do Kindle and more. It's cheap... So I bought one. Delivery Saturday as too late for next day Prime. Friday. At work. Kindle playing up with messages saying unable to open the library.  I check settings. Still no WiFi and pages 1 to 3 there. Hold power button again for 30 secs or so. Screen goes white. No change  Workmate suggests holding power for much longer. Do that. Screen goes white.  Then "Kindle" appears on screen and then a bar showing it rebooting. Fixed. So there you go. Switch it off and on again does work. https://youtu.be/nn2FB1P_Mn8 P...