She has an office on the seventeenth floor.
I use Windows, not a Mac, but a Fire doesn’t register as an external drive when it’s plugged into a USB port, at least, not my version of Fire and my version of Windows. Instead, it connects via Microsoft’s Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) which gives you file-level access and allows you to transfer or delete files, but doesn’t give you drive-level functionality such as formatting (same applies to any SD card the device might have).
If your intent is to keep it and use it, there’s a “device reset” function that completely initializes it to the original factory state, then you can register it with Amazon and do whatever you want. I don’t recognize the lock screen image you posted and I suspect it’s probably quite a bit older than mine, but possibly still a very usable device. I love surfing the net and watching movies on mine.
I don’t really have a use for it. It seems like it’s a camera, and a device for Amazon to sell you things on. I may just donate it to someplace. I’ll hold onto it for a while though, just in case the owner’s relatives want to access the photos on the Cloud.
Nah, it’s actually a very good tablet, at least for my purposes. My model, at least, has a bright 1080p screen with really excellent colours and is great for watching movies and TV shows in bed, or surfing the web. Amazon of course is always trying to sell you stuff but it’s long been an open secret that you can easily sideload the Google Play app on a Fire tablet so you’re not limited to the Amazon ecosystem. It’s perfectly legal and Amazon doesn’t even try to prevent it, they just don’t publicize it. Some of the best apps I have on the tablet were free from the Google Play store. The Fire OS is just a version of Android.
I thought if I sent a letter to the editor of our local neighbourhood paper, the Mystery of the Missing Kindle (or ‘Found Kindle’, I guess, but it sounds much less Perry Mason) might reach a wider audience. (Thanks for letting me know the Kindle branding was dropped in 2014.)
The Kindle Fire tablet lay against a mailbox on Beachway Drive at Maple Street in Birch Bay. It had been there at least two weeks, and possibly since the 4th of July holiday. A black tablet lying against a black mailbox is easy to miss. On Friday the 4th of August, I decided it had been there long enough. I took it home to see if I could find the owner. It was not password protected, so I easily found that the owner was Linda N. Bell, and the tablet’s name was Linda’s 2nd Kindle. There was a gmail address as well as a kindle.com address. How fortunate! On Saturday I sent emails to both addresses saying that I had found the Kindle. Surprisingly, I received no answer. I sent another email to both address on Monday, giving my mobile phone number. After a couple of hours, I called the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Department. A deputy called me while I was at the corner market. I gave him Ms. Bell’s name and the kindle.com email address. (I could not remember the gmail address.) About 15 minutes later, the deputy called me back. He said he’d found a disconnected phone number associated with the kindle.com address. He told me that ‘all indications’ are that Linda N. Bell had died a few years ago. He told me I’d made a ‘valiant effort’, but that there was nothing the Department could do. The deputy said that I could ‘do whatever you think is right’ with it. Though I have no use for it, I seem to now own an old Kindle Fire tablet. (The ‘Kindle’ branding was dropped in 2014, and the devices are now called Amazon Fire.) Only…
There are many photos and some videos in the Cloud tab. Surely, even if Ms. Bell has died, a relative would want them. It wouldn’t feel right to de-register the device and lose images that might be dear to someone.
There is a mystery: How did this Kindle Fire find itself leaning against a mailbox on a fairly active residential street in Birch Bay? Did a relative of Ms. Bell come into its possession, and then lose it during the holiday festivities? Did someone put it out as a free thing for anyone to take? Certainly the deceased Ms. Bell didn’t put it there. I suppose I’ll hold onto it for a decent interval, and donate it if no one comes forward to claim it.
[Signed, me]
Long as her ghost isn’t wandering the earth searching for her Kindle…
Well, if she reads the local rag she can contact them and I’ll take it to their office.