Until the pillow starts to get spicy…

I wonder if they’re banking on wireless chips lasting longer than physical ports. Though making them wireless also means batteries and charging ports, two parts notorious for failing.

I’ve got some decent smithing skills, I’d go looking for bog iron and skip the bronze age.

I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t pick up a stick or a rock during a hike. We’ve been gathering our own tools for hundreds of thousands of years and that curiosity and ingenuity is bone deep for us as a species.

To play devil’s advocate, is there any way you might be able to fix the Kindle? I’ve saved two for family members by swapping batteries and it’s not that hard if you have a spudger and decent set of screwdrivers.