SPILLED ice tea all over brand new Kindle2!!

[kyliedork]

Don't get caught licking your Kindle to see if all the tea is off.    You'll end up on someone's blog post somewhere as someone who loves her Kindle a little *too* much.

kindleilingus? 

[pomlover2586]

Oh now thats just diiirty!

[jeremy81]

I usually use a 44 oz cup with a lid. I haven't had a spill, yet.

[Toby]

Yikes! my heart stopped for a minute. I'm so happy that your Kindle is working. The funny part was when reading messages, most were about sweet tea spills, which means sweet tea is evil. Bad, I say! Stop drinking it!! 

[frojazz]

Yikes! my heart stopped for a minute. I'm so happy that your Kindle is working. The funny part was when reading messages, most were about sweet tea spills, which means sweet tea is evil. Bad, I say! Stop drinking it!! 

You'd better be careful (depending on what part of the country you are in), if you read your posts outloud before you post them!!!   
If you drank sweet tea, you would understand why those people have it around them all the time!  YUM!

coolmnbv, I'm glad that your story has a happy ending.  I would have done the same thing, in your situation (grabbed K2 and cradled it, letting the tea drip to the floor and soak into everything else!!).

[KMA]

You are all bad! 

My K2 survived part of a cup of coffee spilled on in. It's been a week and there have been no problems. I bought a warranty and I am saving for a cover.

[koolmnbv]

LOL 2 all those who also are sweet tea drinker/kindle readers, mine was also sweet Tea (texas southern girl)

So far so good kindle is still in complete working functioning order, no malfunctions yet. I cant wait for my cover to get here for extra protection!!! arghhh

also thanks to those who suggested the squaretrade warranty, i will definitely be checking into that!

[sjc]

You barely got by with that one...wow.  That's why I drink all my Margaritas through a sippy cup...lol.

[Britt]

kindleilingus? 

LOL!!

[Anju No. 469]

You barely got by with that one...wow.  That's why I drink all my Margaritas through a sippy cup...lol.

hmmmm sounds like a good idea, tho when I drink Margaritas I get double vision and that makes it difficult to follow Jamie's adventures 

[radiantmeg]

I think my heart would have stopped!  I keep mine in my borsabella bag when I'm not reading, I figure the bag will take most of the damage if I spill things or whatnot.  Scary!

[crisandria]

Well my Kindle 2 just took a full cup of warm green tea spilled on it.  I had it in my Oberon cover but open on a little table(the kind that the base goes under the couch) by my couch. I had just put it down to get settled in comfortably.  Of course one of my cats picks that moment to decide she has to join me and can't use the clear area of the couch to join me she has to come up under the table and knock it and there goes the tea straight at the kindle, floor and couch cushion I think absorbed most of it. 
  Surprisingly  it seems that the Kindle id not keep any of the tea.  Even thou I swear I saw the tea pour straight at the front of the kindle there was very little liquid on it, the kindle cover had only a tiny bit of water under the kindle at the corners. The kindle is not even sticky.  And seems to work fine so far.
 
Can't say the same for the couch and floor, it's going to take a while to dry even after I soaked up as much liquid as I could...of course I tended my kindle first
  As to the cat, let just say they are spending some quality time in the sun room right now at least till I calm down.

[intinst]

Wow, Kindles seem to be attracting tea this month. Hope everything continues to be OK with your Kindle so that the cats get to come back in sometime soon.

[crisandria]

Everything seems to be ok with the Kindle, I did not keep them in the sun room too long. Mainly long enough to try cleaning up with out "noses" in the way and then a little "alone" time.  They are back out, but keeping their distance for now.

[Anju No. 469]

I think I am going to lay off the tea for awhile 

[intinst]

/\ /\ Looks like a plan, at least while reading on your Kindle!

[pomlover2586]

What about those toddler non spill sippy cups?

[crisandria]

Well the cats are not going back in the sunroom, but my Kindle may not make it.   It seemed fine (just checked it a little bit, then just let it sit) but now it's like someone is pushing the next page key or some key continuously. I'll give it some days to see if it can fix it's self before I do anything.  Maybe it just needs to dry out, the tea must have gotten inside and is causing a short, and or even thou I can't see it the some buttons are "stuck" being held down.  The prev page button and next page button on that side does not work.  But the buttons on the right "seem" to work. Not sure about the keyboard. and it just randomly does stuff. 
  I'm not counting on getting lucky here.

  I did purchase the extended warrantee that Amazon was offering with the onetime replacement.  So worse case I can get it replaced, then need to buy a new decal skin for it.  But hopefully it will stop acting up. 

[pomlover2586]

Does the extended warranty count for drops and spilled liquids? I thought it was an extended manufacturers warranty against the hardware?

[crisandria]

the extended warranty has a one time accidental damage replacement piece to it.  And I'd say spills are accidental damage.  I'll admit I never expected to use it this fast thou.  Or for this.  I thought I might need it for dropping it at some point down the road. I've managed to drop TOO MANY things with cats underfoot or just clumsy.  But this will be the first time having liquids spill over it.  Not too happy with the cats right now.

hopefully given a day or two will dry it out and it will work right.  Just have to decide how long to give it before I give up and call to use the accidental damage onetime option.