Death of a Kindle - Kathleen Jones
I was recently in Cambodia - which proved more of an endurance test than I'd expected. What with being ill, my email and Facebook account hacked and having my cash-point card stopped by the fraud unit I didn't get the chance to enjoy it as much as I would have liked. And when my Kindle froze and died it was the last straw! Perhaps it just didn't like the heat, or had been through too many airport security scanners. These days they scan your baggage at every transit point - once as you get off the plane and then again before you board. Milan to New Zealand via Dubai, Bangkok and Sydney, then NZ to Cambodia via Sydney and Bangkok, racks up a lot of scanning. I try to remember to turn it completely off, as advised, but there's always the one time you forget. It was the classic screen of death - Agatha Christie (a nice touch I thought) with two lines through the middle and an odd fluffy whiteness at the bottom corner. I tried re-s...