Lost: One poor, forlorn Kindle
I left my Kindle on a flight into SFO on Monday night, and unfortunately it doesn't appear that I'll be getting it back. After a two-hour delay to my flight, I think I was a bit brain-dead by the time we touched down, causing me to leave it sitting in my seat.
Feel free to contribute to the "Give a Blogger a Kindle" fund. Just hit "refresh" on this page 1,000,000 times today and my check from CNET should cover a new Kindle. :-)
Seriously, I'm really bummed. It was proving to be such an excellent device. I was going to be giving this one to my parents in Argentina to help keep my mom up-to-date on her books, but the thought of buying another one grates on me. I wish Amazon created a "self-destruct" feature in the device so that I could ensure whoever picked it up gets no enjoyment from it.
If you haven't bought one but have been considering it, I'd encourage you to give it a try. I was skeptical at first but quickly grew to love the device. It feels almost perfect in the hand and the screen is wonderful.
Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay. 


Good Luck!
Spend that much money just to read books you get whatever happens.
If you had misplaced a paperback it wouldn't be such a loss.
What is even more amusing is the issues you will have replacing any books you had stored thanks to DRM.
But it's absolutely true that a paperback would have been cheap to lose. The only problem in this case is that the book I was reading - Sherlock Holmes - is quite big so that's why I brought the Kindle - to save space. Never again....
Matt--you should just get a lobotomy and make your life easier.
Len Edgerly, Denver & Cambridge MA
- by Lauren8204 July 28, 2009 11:48 AM PDT
- I'm so bummed, because I lost my Kindle DX yesterday as well! I'm not sure if I accidently left it at work or the gym on may way home or if someone took it, but no luck with the lost & found yet. I heard of another person who lost their kindle that created a text file of their contact information and sent it to their kindle so that if anyone found it they would know how to contact the owner. You can also register the kindle to a dummy credit card number rather than just deregistering it (since this would allow someone who took it to easily register it to themselves). Hope you find your kindle! It's so sad (and painful on the wallet) to lost them...
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