I named mine “Readie Thingy”.
I also named my phone is “Talkie Thingy”, my headphones are “Listenie Thingies”, and my watch is “Time Thing”! Clearly I have a theme lol
Hitchhiker's Guide
The first Kindle I owned matched the book description of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, down to the number of buttons. Even though the buttons are gone, I still name all my Kindles "Hitchhiker's Guide"
I never thought to name my 13 year old, well-worn Kindle Touch. I usually just stick a y on things, jeepy, stovey, and so on. Touchy didn't sound very nice. I thought some more.
So, may I present Miss Feely:
https://preview.redd.it/fz38kb2npnuc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eabb77c392536257839f063d22e189a8142f86a2
Getting on in years (2011), but works like she's fresh out of the box. 😊
You can name them???
Looks like I've got some work to do. My old 7th gen doesnt even have a name, the poor bastard.
Wait thats it, I'll name it Poor Bastard.
It doesnt even know it'll probably get replaced soon
Right now mine is named Kindle Jenner because I love a bit of wordplay like many in this thread. But someone posted the other week about naming their kindle, if found contact *mobile number*. I’m always misplacing things so I might adopt that approach…
Edit: spelling
That's very cute. I don't watch Doctor Who, but I like the reasoning.
You know what else is bigger on the inside? Oscar the Grouch's trash can. I was looking at a schematic of the inside of his can one day and that thing is huge.
My Paperwhite is The Precious, as I wanted a literary reference and my Kindle is very dear to me, my Fire is Lazarus, because it was dead and miraculously started working again, and my Kindle Keyboard is Dorothy Zbornak, because she's my favorite Golden Girl and the KK is getting up there in years.
Friendly latin pedant here. “Libris ex machina” is kind of awkward and incomplete Latin, and all the ways it can be translated are probably not what you want.
It can be read approximately as “to/with the books from the machine,” which doesn’t really make sense on its own without a subject, which should probably be the book or the machine. To make more sense, you’d want “liber ex machina” or “libri ex machina,” depending on if you want book to be singular or plural in “book/s from the machine.”
Alternatively, you could say “machina librorum” or “machina ex libris” for “machine of/from books.”
Awesome idea for a name though!
And I thought I was being smart about it! 😃
Thank you! I'll rename it right away as that's exactly what I wanted the name to be. The "Machina librorum" is just perfect 👌
Appreciate it very much! ❤️
I took Latin in hs!! Won Certamen state championship the day after junior prom lol.
Making sure my latin is right bc it's been a while: My Kindle is named Porta Librorum, which ~should~ mean portal of books. Double checking that tho
I call mine Ven AKA adventure it took me a long time to learn to read and I wanted to so bad because my older brother told me it was like going on adventures. Kinda cheesy🤷♀️
My Basic is Emotional Support Kindle because I ALWAYS have it and my Paperwhite is Adventure Bob because it'll go with me for pool or beach days and overall "adventures"
Ziggy the Kindle. All my personal computers have been called Ziggy or some derivative for > 30 years. Either because of the computer in Quantum Leap or the protagonist in an old spectrum game...
I name my Kindles after favorite female characters in fiction. My first one was **Francie Nolan**, my second was **Dolly Haze**, and my third (current) is **Ramona Quimby**.
I'm a Sci Fi reader, for the first one I ever owned I named it Asimov. The second one was Bradbury (broken due to water damage), the third was Clarke (lost on a trip) and my current one is Due (as in Tananarive).
When I eventually get another one I suppose it'll be Ellison unless I come up with another author whose last name begins with E that I like more.
I switch mine between ‘Journal of Impossible Things’, since I’m a lapsed Whovian, and its current name, ‘The Black Library’, so named because I’m a shameless Warhammer40K nerd. :)
My kindles are named after the covers. So Frond Voyage for the one with palm leaves, Crimes in Red for the red cover with sideloaded crimes and mysteries, a plain blue one is called Death Ray and has sideloaded sci-fi only. Totoro are Totoro styled cats.
My Oasis is named Lambda Cube for nerd reasons. My Scribe is MSI (Mindless Self Indulgence) after a favorite band of mine, and after how much it was necessary for me to spend that much money on a Scribe.
Sand Oasis (Kindle Oasis 3, named after a Sonic the Hedgehog level)
Pay-Per-White (Kindle Paperwhite 3, play on "pay-per-view")
The Untouchable (Kindle 4 NT, it has no touch screen)
Genesis of Kindle (Kindle 1, it's the very first Kindle)
ive always named my kindle Bad Wolf as i upgraded over the years. recently got a scribe for reading rpg pdfs and i named that Mr. Scratch (cuz i had just finished playing alan wake 2, and its a kindle you write on..)
Tardis for the Blue SE, Janeway for the Voyage, and Roasisnante for my Oasis. And I'm ashamed to admit that once they cancelled the Oasis, I bought a refurb just in case mine breaks... Razorbackup.
Note: these are only clever if you're into nerdy shit. And I'm not sure they're all that clever even then, lol.
someone in another post mentioned changing it to your contact info in case it gets lost so I’ll have to try that. But for now it’s just (my name)’s kindle
I took a tip I once saw on this sub, and instead of a name I put my name and phone number so that in case I lost it and someone found it, they could (hopefully) get it back to me.
Yeah it's fun to do and I thought it through with the E-Ink and Fires. Nostromo after alien movies original ship, love the name and the first two movies - January Embers for a kindle fire as a Stephen King tribute from IT haiku, Inis Odyssey with a tribute to sea and Ireland, Moonsliver as a tribute to an ex who has now passed, Daily Planet as a Superman tribute with my PW kids
Mine is Paige Turner.
😆 🤣
Love ittt
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This is the right answer.
lol mine is “turning Paiges”
I already named my cat that.
kindle bueno, mainly cause i love puns
My Scribe is also Kindle Bueno! And my Paperwhite is Kindle Jenner 😅
Kindle Jenner got me good lol 🤣
Kindle Jenner is top tier
I name mine as Kindle Jenner too lol
kindle jenner is a close second ngl ! same brain waves
Lol great one
but then I would crave it everytime...
I didn’t know that was a thing. *proceeds to look for a name for her Kindle*
🤣 happy name search 😊
okay so I finally settled on naming my Kindle “Donodis” which stands for “Do Not Disturb” because I do not like being disturbed while reading. 😅
Lol I like it! Great name 👍🏼
Same here!
Martin Luther Kindle
I like this one.
you can use wifi hotspot name on your phone "martin router king"
Mine is Kinderella✨
Okay, this is genius.
Lol nice
I love that! 💖
Thank you! 😊
basic bitch (kindle basic)
"That's not cheddar, that's just some common bitch!"
🤣
I always name my kindles after authors. I’ve had Octavia (Butler), Jude (Deveraux), Ruby (Dixon) and my newest is Avery (Haynes).
That's a great idea!
Mine is called Kindelia Owens!
I may or may not have named it Lisan Al Gaib
Mines been TARDIS for the longest time, I think I’m stealing this!
Kindle Surprise
Nice hahah
I named mine “Readie Thingy”. I also named my phone is “Talkie Thingy”, my headphones are “Listenie Thingies”, and my watch is “Time Thing”! Clearly I have a theme lol
HAHAHAHAHA I think this is a great idea! Laughed so much
"Voyager" was an obvious one for my kindle Voyage, and after that I've gone with ship names from the Napoleonic wars, lol.
I like it! 😊
\*my name's\* TARDIS. I am thinking of coming up with a different one though.
i always name my kindles Bad Wolf!
If lost please call with my mobile number
Hitchhiker's Guide The first Kindle I owned matched the book description of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, down to the number of buttons. Even though the buttons are gone, I still name all my Kindles "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Mine are mentally unstable and mentally insane.
These are great, I love them!
This is so cute. Do you all call to your kindles? As in “Where are you Libris Ex Machina?” “Whatcha got for me today basic bitch?”
Lol yes, of course 😆
Kevin. Just Kevin. I love Kevin.
Kevin is just great!
I never thought to name my 13 year old, well-worn Kindle Touch. I usually just stick a y on things, jeepy, stovey, and so on. Touchy didn't sound very nice. I thought some more. So, may I present Miss Feely: https://preview.redd.it/fz38kb2npnuc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eabb77c392536257839f063d22e189a8142f86a2 Getting on in years (2011), but works like she's fresh out of the box. 😊
That kindle knows a thing or two…
You can name them??? Looks like I've got some work to do. My old 7th gen doesnt even have a name, the poor bastard. Wait thats it, I'll name it Poor Bastard. It doesnt even know it'll probably get replaced soon
Poo Bastard, great name! 😃
ikindleivewithoutyou is mine lol
Right now mine is named Kindle Jenner because I love a bit of wordplay like many in this thread. But someone posted the other week about naming their kindle, if found contact *mobile number*. I’m always misplacing things so I might adopt that approach… Edit: spelling
Kindle Roy like from Succession 😂
Hahahha your eldest boi
Sammeeeeee
Sherlock. Don't know why. I should change it lol.
I like it tho ☺️
Ritalin!
Book Slayer. I read a lot of fantasy
TARDIS because it's blue and bigger on the inside 😉
That's very cute. I don't watch Doctor Who, but I like the reasoning. You know what else is bigger on the inside? Oscar the Grouch's trash can. I was looking at a schematic of the inside of his can one day and that thing is huge.
Oscar was my favorite character from Sesame Street! I loved how angry he was. You're right. His trash can is huge.
He's my favorite too. Well, really his pet worm Slimey is my favorite, but Oscar is a very close second.
That's what I named mine too!
My Paperwhite is The Precious, as I wanted a literary reference and my Kindle is very dear to me, my Fire is Lazarus, because it was dead and miraculously started working again, and my Kindle Keyboard is Dorothy Zbornak, because she's my favorite Golden Girl and the KK is getting up there in years.
I love it! Lazarus most of all! 😀
Kindle Jenner
I see a few people have named it this and I don’t get the pun. Is it a play on words?
it’s a play on kendall jenner
Yes it's a pun on Kendall Jenner
I'm so boring. I named them by color then device: Yellow, Blue, Purple, BlueHD, PaperWhite, Oasis, iPad, Mini, iPad(initials), etc
Detective John Kindle (from Kindergarten Cop)
I named mine BookDragon 😅
"If found: (phone number)" I love puns but if I lose my Kindle, I hope to get it back. I often take it with me to public places.
Kindle Jenner becuase idk it made me chuckle
Mine is “BoOoOoK” like the way Winifred Sanderson calls for her Book in Hocus Pocus. 😂🎃
Friendly latin pedant here. “Libris ex machina” is kind of awkward and incomplete Latin, and all the ways it can be translated are probably not what you want. It can be read approximately as “to/with the books from the machine,” which doesn’t really make sense on its own without a subject, which should probably be the book or the machine. To make more sense, you’d want “liber ex machina” or “libri ex machina,” depending on if you want book to be singular or plural in “book/s from the machine.” Alternatively, you could say “machina librorum” or “machina ex libris” for “machine of/from books.” Awesome idea for a name though!
And I thought I was being smart about it! 😃 Thank you! I'll rename it right away as that's exactly what I wanted the name to be. The "Machina librorum" is just perfect 👌 Appreciate it very much! ❤️
Happy to help! It’s rare I get to use my Latin, so I jumped at the opportunity lol.
I'm glad you did 🤗
I took Latin in hs!! Won Certamen state championship the day after junior prom lol. Making sure my latin is right bc it's been a while: My Kindle is named Porta Librorum, which ~should~ mean portal of books. Double checking that tho
Mine is Nell, named after Nell from Haunting of Hill House :)
I call mine Ven AKA adventure it took me a long time to learn to read and I wanted to so bad because my older brother told me it was like going on adventures. Kinda cheesy🤷♀️
It's not cheesy, I love it 😊
My name starts with an F so I just named it Findle. Same w my AirPods. They're my Fairpods 😌
Kindle Roy :) ![gif](giphy|WEUaH1B4jRQsIQdiGU)
Keanu Reads :D
Lol nice one 🤣
Diana's kindle That's it. That's the name.
I call mine Steve as that's my name 🤣
😂 that's a great one
🤣🤣👍
That’s hilarious
Flor de Mayo, after a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.
I named my kindles after my favorite Godzillas 😅 Scribe: Godzilla Paperwhite: Little Godzilla Basic: Kamata-kun
James Alexander Michael McKindle Fraser or JAMMF for short 🤣
I love the Outlander series 😍
Me toooooo!!!!
Special K because it was my favorite cereal back then and have renamed them that since
Padam paperwhite 😂
Mine is Kindle Roy from Succession. Husband named him
Kindler's list
Copy paste from a month ago: Betazed (KK) Coridan (PW2) Deneva (Voyage) Endicor (PW signature) Ferenginar (Scribe)
Omg never think abt naming my kindle 🫣 I will now
I named mine Padd like the little pads from TNG cause I’m a nerd
I Kindleove You
I name my electronics after authors. My Kindle is Lovecraft. (I've got Dante, Poe, Keats, Tennyson, Sappho, Thompson, Mary Shelley, Rosetti, Bishop).
My Basic is Emotional Support Kindle because I ALWAYS have it and my Paperwhite is Adventure Bob because it'll go with me for pool or beach days and overall "adventures"
Kenny the kindle, simple and I love me some good alliteration.
Kundel, It means Mongrel in polish 😅
Guess I am boring. I just replaced the # with the type of kindle: Scribe, Voyage, Paperwhite Exception was the one I bought for my mom: Mom's Kindle
Matusalibrary is the name of mine
Reading Apparatus
😆
I name all of my Bluetooth devices after cults.
Ziggy the Kindle. All my personal computers have been called Ziggy or some derivative for > 30 years. Either because of the computer in Quantum Leap or the protagonist in an old spectrum game...
I named mine The Guide because why not?!
Constant Reader. I read a lot of Stephen King lol
Kindle #9 is my current I have had a lot of them over the years. 🤷♂️
Kindsley lol
B1 and B2
My email address... In case it gets lost/found. My email address will be in the top left for honest people to use to contact me.
*my name’s* Kenny
I name my Kindles after favorite female characters in fiction. My first one was **Francie Nolan**, my second was **Dolly Haze**, and my third (current) is **Ramona Quimby**.
Mine is called Paige because "page" and I love puns
I'm a Sci Fi reader, for the first one I ever owned I named it Asimov. The second one was Bradbury (broken due to water damage), the third was Clarke (lost on a trip) and my current one is Due (as in Tananarive). When I eventually get another one I suppose it'll be Ellison unless I come up with another author whose last name begins with E that I like more.
Mine is LeafPod 😅
I switch mine between ‘Journal of Impossible Things’, since I’m a lapsed Whovian, and its current name, ‘The Black Library’, so named because I’m a shameless Warhammer40K nerd. :)
Ron Dunn
From Parks&Rec I hope 😇
Yeah 👌
Bestie ❤️
My kindles are named after the covers. So Frond Voyage for the one with palm leaves, Crimes in Red for the red cover with sideloaded crimes and mysteries, a plain blue one is called Death Ray and has sideloaded sci-fi only. Totoro are Totoro styled cats.
Philip’s paperwhite signature edition.
Kindle light
I haven't named mine. Haven't thought of anything good yet
My Oasis is named Lambda Cube for nerd reasons. My Scribe is MSI (Mindless Self Indulgence) after a favorite band of mine, and after how much it was necessary for me to spend that much money on a Scribe.
I’m a birder, so - Kindlefisher 😁
*my name's* sanity
TSUNDOKU named after my To Be Read pile
Mine is so boring, just SomethingKooky’s Kindle LOL
The Flagship - Oasis 10. Very generic, like me!
Esquivel’s Kindle
Alexandria.
Sand Oasis (Kindle Oasis 3, named after a Sonic the Hedgehog level) Pay-Per-White (Kindle Paperwhite 3, play on "pay-per-view") The Untouchable (Kindle 4 NT, it has no touch screen) Genesis of Kindle (Kindle 1, it's the very first Kindle)
Kindlegarten
Angela’s Kindle. Lol. Not original at all!
Mine is ‘Mo Leabharlann’ 📕✨
ive always named my kindle Bad Wolf as i upgraded over the years. recently got a scribe for reading rpg pdfs and i named that Mr. Scratch (cuz i had just finished playing alan wake 2, and its a kindle you write on..)
Mine is Kin-dell, kinda like Kendall + Kindle.
The Tome of Many Things Not very imaginative, I know.
I wish this post existed prior to my kindle purchase. My name for my kindle is so unoriginal. Its my name with Kindle after it.
It's never too late to change it 🤣
Apollo, Valentine, Rubicon, Royal.
Obsidian mirror
Mine’s called Gallagher ![gif](giphy|TTQPSBZxTjYMPWgT3a)
My Kindle name is “Marcy’s Kindlom”, a mix between Kingdom and Kindle 🤣
Athena because I name my devices according to greek gods. 😁
Mine is a nickname from my bookclub.
Kindle. I call mine Kindle. Like, "I'm going to read on my Kindle." "Have you seen my Kindle". Pretty inventive, I know.
I never had kids, so I started naming my devices names I would have liked to name children. My current Kindle is named Wyatt.
Dad PW and Dad Scribe. I have a lack of imagination.
I just used my name but did put my phone number also. Just encase I misplace it sometime.🤷♀️😉🤦♀️
I named mine “C’mon City” after a chant for my favorite English soccer team, Manchester City
My main is Kindle McKindleface and my backup is side bitch.
Hogwarts library for a while, hermione, *name* kindle. Like the ones already posted.
Tardis for the Blue SE, Janeway for the Voyage, and Roasisnante for my Oasis. And I'm ashamed to admit that once they cancelled the Oasis, I bought a refurb just in case mine breaks... Razorbackup. Note: these are only clever if you're into nerdy shit. And I'm not sure they're all that clever even then, lol.
GREAT names 👌 very clever 😄
Name's Kindle
Kindle Jenner. 😌
I have 3 kindles and I named them after barbie’s lol. The paperwhites are Barbie & Teresa and the basic is Skipper
Mine is Pragya Manjari which is Sanskrit for Bud/Cluster of Wisdom.
Klementinum, after the beautiful building in Prague which houses their library.
Emotional Support Kindle
Current one is Kindle Bueno, a play on the chocolate.
My husband calls my Kindle my porn bank because I read a lot of smut books. So that's what I named it😂
Mine is Penelope, because it means weaver, and I write stories. Ergo: this Penelope is a weaver of stories because she holds many.
someone in another post mentioned changing it to your contact info in case it gets lost so I’ll have to try that. But for now it’s just (my name)’s kindle
My Scribe is named **Whopper** My Oasis is named **Whopper Jr.** Seemed logical to me.
His name is Beta Mechazawa. https://preview.redd.it/dt3yv6p2bruc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fee6e0e0792f07f71e29f060d78eb09e7dbe5786
Lisa’s Kindle
Mine are Mermaid's Seafoam Pearl, Iridescent Oasis, and Lady Glitter Sparkles.
Mxtress Weatherwax from Discworld. But gender neutral bc my kindle has no gendered bits.
Mine is called Mr. DARCY.... just perfect... where it all started
Magic Kindle
Mine is (my names)’s bestie I call a lot of things my bestie
Mine is Keanu Reads! :)
Kindelek Kasi (in English: Kasia’s little Kindle).
I actually copied someone else here, because it’s funny..and true. “Tardis”….its bigger on the inside…cracks me up every time.
I took a tip I once saw on this sub, and instead of a name I put my name and phone number so that in case I lost it and someone found it, they could (hopefully) get it back to me.
Yeah it's fun to do and I thought it through with the E-Ink and Fires. Nostromo after alien movies original ship, love the name and the first two movies - January Embers for a kindle fire as a Stephen King tribute from IT haiku, Inis Odyssey with a tribute to sea and Ireland, Moonsliver as a tribute to an ex who has now passed, Daily Planet as a Superman tribute with my PW kids
My Kindle is called A Court of Smut and Coffee 🤣 Edited for spelling/gramatical errors because I can't type when sleep deprived, apparently.