Have you tried dropping it in the tub? Okay, but you can put a Kindle in a ziplock bag!
My book doesn’t need charging.
My three hundred books take up less room. 
I sell my extras to used-book shops and go drink some beer.
Who has extra books?
I’m glad to find out I can get a kindle for $30 or so if my current fire dies. the only thing I don’t like about it is it’s hard to read in sunlight.
My books react well to reading in sunlight.
I love my base model kindle for portability of one or many books and easy reading in any lighting. I love my real books for for the feel of having a book in my hands and they are also good in bright lighting. I love my audiobooks for their ability to let me read AND get things done. In other words no book is a bad book! But a book on a regular tablet gives me a headache after not very long. But still BOOKS ARE GOOD!
I feel you. Even thought my Kindle 2 has numerous issues (cracked case, must be plugged in to download books) and has long been replaced by a Paperwhite, I still keep it active and loaded with my current library of books. I tell myself it’s in case the Paperwhite dies and I need an emergency backup, but really I’m just keeping the thing on life support because I can’t bring myself to let it go.
That said, I’m now 100% Team Kindle. I have given away over 500 of my books, all but a few sentimental favorites. I don’t think I’ll ever read another physical book as long as it’s available electronically.
May want to look at the offerings from Kobo. Though I am a dead tree kind of guy.
Brian
For my mom I actually got her a Fire on a Black Friday sale, and recently got her a used Kindle for the battery life. She actually likes the Kindle better, even if though is a Kindle 2 and harder to navigate. She says it’s easier to read.
(For one thing, I have the font turned up slightly, and it’s bigger than the “HUGE” setting on the Fire. I do not know why they seem to have made Huge about the size of a normal book.)
I’m on that Team too, although I miss non-digital books. My eyesight’s too bad and I need the ability to increase the font size.
I only just got around to noticing that there’s a new font called Amazon Ember on my Paperwhite (2016 model, white version). It’s almost but not quite a san serif font. It was certainly designed with san-serif in mind. I think I still like Bookerly better, which is odd because I mostly prefer san-serif. I should try Ember for a while, I suppose. The spacing is different.
Here’s a video showing the difference -
Kobo Aura One is hands down the best e-book reader available today. It has a 7.8-inch high-resolution (300 dpi, I believe) screen, is waterproof, and has a dual color front lighting - cool white and warm white. At night it automatically switches to warm white lighting.
Except it can’t access Amazon Kindle books, so if you already have a lot of books on Kindle, you lose access to it. Personally I still use Kindle readers for English books, and the Kobo for Japanese books from Rakuten. (Rakuten is actually a parent company of Kobo now, but they seem to have two separate ecosystems, Kobo for mainly English books and the Rakuten bookstore in Japan.)
p.s. Also the Kobo doesn’t have 3G, while the Kindle is available with free global 3G. It’s been very useful on international trips.
When my Kindle broke it was way out of warranty, like yours is. I contacted the Amazon Kindle people and asked if they would be willing to give a price discount on a new one. They did. That was a couple of years ago; but I got a Kindle Paper White out of the deal for 20-25% off.
My six-year-old Kindle is dying a slow death. I’m also very connected to her and reluctant to begin looking for a new one 
::: psst - one of you folks who offered me a Kindle on PM might want to help out Jennshark. Just sayin’… :::
Another recommendation for the paperwhite. I love mine, and it’s going on 2 or 3 years.
Can I just say, as much as I love Amazon, I really hate that they decided to name their tablets and their e-readers the same thing. They’re completely different things that really can’t be compared.
They backed off that mistake years ago. Still a ton of people call Amazon Fire tablets “Kindles”.
And no, they’re not all that different. I rooted my Nook Simple Touch when I got it years ago. It’s a basic Android 2.x tablet. Installed some old Android apps on it. In fact, I use FBRreader instead of the B&N one. I have actually surfed the web on it despite the page refresh rate being low. I know people who use it for digital music in/out reasons and other non-reader uses. A modern Kindle is basically just an Android tablet.
The current naming mistake Amazon needs to fix is the “FireTV” thing. There’s the boxes and now there’s actual TVs. Bad enough in print, terrible out loud.