My not so wonderful ebook!

Arghhhhh.  

I try to be an environmental nut job.  I compost, I sort my recycling, I buy bulk.  This year, like last year, we are only giving handmade and recycled gifts and like last year, I expect it will really cut down on what we throw out.  I refurbished and repaired every electronic device in our house that I could.  I squeezed another five years out of a 20 year old washing machine before replacing it and the dryer (25 years old) with a new energy saver one. When I can, I avoid buying new technology in favour of maintaining and upgrading. 

My Sony E-reader died! (The highlighted bit is a link to an article I wrote back in the good old days when I thought things were looking up).  

I went into the Sony store and they told me to try a few different things before bringing it in to be serviced.  I tried them all and then returned to the store.  They had the same e-book at a greatly reduced price: $79!  Guess how much it was going to cost to repair my old one.  $70.

I almost cried.  The poor guy had to listen to my environmental nut job ranting, added to that a bit of old lady angst against how fast things become obsolete.  At one point I noticed the man's right eye was considerably larger than the the left eye.  (This is the curse of being me, I notice things that have nothing to do with anything, but because I notice them I try to figure out what they mean.)  Was he trying to stare me down?  Was this an indication that he was really interested?

Long and short: He gave me a phone number and suggested I let them know how unhappy I am with this. I haven't called them yet.

What he was able to tell me is the cost is a result of my e-reader model being discontinued.  The most state of the art thing about me is already shelved.  Oooh, my ovaries just got twisted in a knot over that!  Perhaps I need more fiber.  Maybe I can shred my ebook and eat it?