Life gets more frustrating
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wateroverstone Thanks to Amazon, I'm now being sharply reminded of how my life was in the late 1970s in that I'm reading paperbacks rather than e-books and I'm having to stand up and walk to the tv to manually change channels as the remote has decided not to work, even with brand new high quality batteries and all the resets I could find on google.
For many years, I've attempted to keep the chaos which is my book habit under partial control by only buying books by favoured authors which I'm likely to reread.Kindle Unlimited has replaced visiting the libraryand an increasing number of books are on various reading aps on my tablet. ( Mainly due to my habit of finishing a book and instantly wanting to start the next in the series and my discovery of hard to get in print authors on book repository sites.)
Returning to reading 'real' books is strange. I'm finding them heavy to hold and generally cumbersome, although this is probably due to what I pulled off my shelves: a Sookie Stackhouse trilogy inspired by a Reddit thread of books which were all the rage a few years ago and now aren't mentioned, and a Robert Heinlein.
My Amazon account has disappeared as there was fraudulent activity on it so my account was only recoverable if I put in a one time password then the expiry date of the card associated with the account to change the password. Unfortunately it refuses to recognise the date on the card as the one on the system and I get into a loop of inputting OTPs, the expiry date then my account is blocked due to the number of times I've tried to gain access to it. I've also lost access to online banking as computer didn't like my new PIN number for my new card. They'll send something by post in the next three days for me to reobtain access.. I've phoned Amazon three times, and each time they have refused to accept the problem and told me to try again after 24 hours.Google says I have to be logged into my account to contact Amazon via email. I think I'm going to give up today and create a new account which I didn't want to do as I don't want to lose the recommendations on Kindle - it's finally got the hang of accurately notifying me when new books by favoured authors are about to come out and there are a few craft supplies that come up on re-order which saves me hunting for them. I do want to be able to open my Kindle app again, though, as I've lost access to everything within it. I also can't order a new channel changer until I have an active account again.First World problems I know, but frustrating and time wasting all the same.
For many years, I've attempted to keep the chaos which is my book habit under partial control by only buying books by favoured authors which I'm likely to reread.Kindle Unlimited has replaced visiting the libraryand an increasing number of books are on various reading aps on my tablet. ( Mainly due to my habit of finishing a book and instantly wanting to start the next in the series and my discovery of hard to get in print authors on book repository sites.)
Returning to reading 'real' books is strange. I'm finding them heavy to hold and generally cumbersome, although this is probably due to what I pulled off my shelves: a Sookie Stackhouse trilogy inspired by a Reddit thread of books which were all the rage a few years ago and now aren't mentioned, and a Robert Heinlein.
My Amazon account has disappeared as there was fraudulent activity on it so my account was only recoverable if I put in a one time password then the expiry date of the card associated with the account to change the password. Unfortunately it refuses to recognise the date on the card as the one on the system and I get into a loop of inputting OTPs, the expiry date then my account is blocked due to the number of times I've tried to gain access to it. I've also lost access to online banking as computer didn't like my new PIN number for my new card. They'll send something by post in the next three days for me to reobtain access.. I've phoned Amazon three times, and each time they have refused to accept the problem and told me to try again after 24 hours.Google says I have to be logged into my account to contact Amazon via email. I think I'm going to give up today and create a new account which I didn't want to do as I don't want to lose the recommendations on Kindle - it's finally got the hang of accurately notifying me when new books by favoured authors are about to come out and there are a few craft supplies that come up on re-order which saves me hunting for them. I do want to be able to open my Kindle app again, though, as I've lost access to everything within it. I also can't order a new channel changer until I have an active account again.First World problems I know, but frustrating and time wasting all the same.
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