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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RoseD" data-source="post: 2736583" data-attributes="member: 219998">I've had the Kindle 3, aka the Kindle Keyboard, for 2.5 years now.  No problems at all.  My father has a Kindle that's 6 months older than mine and it still works fine.  I don't know where this rumor about them malfunctioning after a year started - probably the same place as the rumor that you can only buy content from Amazon.  Both are untrue.The basic Kindle is a good choice.  I can read mine for 8 hours or more with no eye strain.  Also, it's easy to enlarge the font, which can come in handy.</blockquote>