# The new New York Times Kindle app makes me unhappy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 19, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-new-york-times-kindle-app-makes-me-unhappy/985777 "2023-06-19T15:07:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-new-york-times-kindle-app-makes-me-unhappy/985777/1 "2023-06-19T15:07:43Z")
I think I have everything working as it should. I do not think I need technical help. I am just angry. I am using an Amazon Fire. Until recently, each day it would download my New York Times which I could read in my bus offline. A couple of weeks ago, Amazon and most newspapers cut their relationship. The Kindle app will not longer let you read the paper. So I downloaded the New York Times app. This morning I jumped through the hoops to subscribe. It seems to work. Well, it seems to work when I am online. The paper comes up and I can read the article. When I go into airplane mode the thing coughs up a furball. It need to be online to download each article as I request it. I do not use the internet at work, as I am a bus driver. It seems my only option is to connect the Fire tot he internet through my smart phone. That makes me unhappy in some privacy-related way that is inchoate. Now why in the world is Amazon (and the Times) making me unhappy? Some sort of argument about money I suppose. I wonder if the old B&W Amazon Kindle will still work as it did before. Seriously, why is this so difficult? ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-new-york-times-kindle-app-makes-me-unhappy/985777/2 "2023-06-19T15:22:14Z")
OK, perhaps I do need technical help. Amazon confirms that this is not their problem. I suppose I will now need to access the Internet while I am on my school bus via my cheapo Android smart phone. How do I do that? I need a teenage to help. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-new-york-times-kindle-app-makes-me-unhappy/985777/3 "2023-06-19T17:45:02Z")
Go into your phone’s Settings app and search for “hotspot”. The exact menu options may depend on your phone, but on mine it is called “Mobile Hotspot & Tethering”. Under there I click Mobile Hotspot, enter the hotspot name and password, then turn it on. (Make sure you pick a reasonable password so your bus passengers can’t easily guess it.) Then from your tablet, go to Wi-Fi settings where you should see your phone as a Wi-Fi network. Connect to it and enter the name/password you set up on your phone. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-new-york-times-kindle-app-makes-me-unhappy/985777/4 "2023-06-19T20:27:21Z")
Thank you. I will monkey with it tomorrow. All in all, reading the _New York Times_ in a school bus, away from the distractions of an internet connection was just to beautiful to last. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-new-york-times-kindle-app-makes-me-unhappy/985777/5 "2023-06-20T11:10:51Z")
Heh. Read and drink fortified coffee.