Twilight Receives a Kindle

by cyber_pony13

Chapter 2: Twilight vs The Kindle

Twilight didn't sleep well that night. Her mind kept wondering what was inside the package. After dragging herself out of bed and getting breakfast ready, Spike walked in with the same sleep deprived look. It seemed that both of them couldn't get the idea of the package out of their minds.

Twilight decided it was best to open the package and see what was inside. She opened it to see a small, flat, beveled shape device. It was approx. 7.5 in long, 5 inches wide, but to her surprise it wasn't even an inch thick. Twilight had never seen anything like this. She examined it more to find some lettering on the back that said 'Kindle'.

"Huh, Kindle... that must be what this is called." Twilight thought out loud.

"Hey Twilight there's a letter in the box." Spike pointed out.

Twilight saw the letter and examined it. The same return address and sender's name was on it. She was curious of who the sender was and hoped the letter would have some answers. She opened the letter and read it out loud.

"Dear Twilight, since you love to read I've decided to send you a special gift. What you have is called a Kindle. It is an amazing device that allows you to take your favorite books with you wherever you go. Do enjoy this great gift any reader would enjoy."

She wondered how such a thing existed and began to get excited of her current blessing. Twilight found the instruction manual and quickly read over them. She then proceeded to turn on the device. The screen lit up and asked her to register a username and password.

"That's easy, Twilight's Kindle." Twilight said.

"Is that the best you can come up with for a username?" Spike replied.

"Do you have anything better?"

"Hmmm....I don't know. Twilight Sparkle, can't really work with that."

Twilight glared at Spike for the moment and went back to her kindle. She tapped the area on the screen where to name the device. A set of letters appeared for her to put in the name. Twilight paused at the predicament she was in.

"This isn't right..." Twilight murmured.

"What is it?" Spike asked.

"How is anypony supposed to use this thing with hooves?" Spike shot her a look of confusion. "Our hooves are too big for these keys so unless you have magic or small appendages to operate it."

"Uh sure...what are appendages though?" Spike agreed.

Twilight concentrated on the keys with her magic and used it to push enough pressure on the keys to input her username and password in her kindle. Afterwards a little welcome screen popped up and a menu with a couple sample books. The books were different theories of magic. She tried to tap on one of the books but forgot her hoof was too big for the screen. She used her magic to select one of the books and quickly read through the first page. That's when her next problem occurred.

"Oh great...how am I supposed to turn the pages?"

"How about your magic?" Spike suggested

"I'm trying...but I can't" Twilight strained

"What do you mean you can't?"

Twilight put the kindle down and went over to grab one of her books. She then held the book and the kindle in front of Spike to demonstrate.

"You see Spike, books have pages. With magic, I'm able to grab the page and turn it. Now this doesn't have pages. It is just a flat screen that has words on it." Twilight explained.

"I thought it was a kindle?"

Twilight groaned at Spike's naivety. She thought how she normally would turn the page of a book. Looking at the kindle, she couldn't believe what she was about to attempt. Squinting her eyes from the light, she pressed her nose on the screen and swiped it across. Twilight opened her eyes fully to see that the page had turned. Spike giggled at Twilight's action. After seeing Twilight continue to turn the pages, he couldn't hold back his laughter anymore.

"This isn't funny Spike. This is the only way I can turn the pages." Twilight responded. 'Despite how humiliating it is.'

"How...how about you try...one of them buttons on the side?" Spike said through his laughter.

Twilight looked to the side of the kindle to see two buttons with different arrows. Curious, she pressed the arrow that looked like a forward arrow. Upon pressing the button, the page turned to her surprise. Spike laughed even more of Twilight's embarrassment. She was agitated and losing it now.

"Okay that's enough of these books. How about we add my collection to it now?" Twilight suggested.

"Sure but how do we do that?" Spike asked.

Twilight wasn't sure herself. She picked up the manual and read about something called 'the internet' and 'Amazon'. After reading further into it, she found nothing else about it except how to connect to the internet. After a groan, she attempted to connect to the internet with her kindle. The screen read 'no internet connection found.'

"What, but I did exactly what it said?!" Twilight exclaimed.

"You think this Amazon would be easy to connect to." Spike added. "By the way what is the internet and Amazon?"

"I don't know but I figured this Amazon must be some sort of store since this thing says it's a product of it. Although I've never heard of the internet." Twilight explained.

Twilight went to her books to see if she could find anything about the internet. A couple hours of research and no results. Twilight sighed at her grief and felt her sanity fade.

"Uh Twilight...maybe we should try another day." Spike suggested.

"Another day...another day..." Twilight mumbled.

Spike backed up knowing Twilight may have lost it.

"What do you mean another day?!" After all the time we put into figuring out this thing, we still are having difficulties with it!" Twilight exclaimed.

"Yup, she's lost it." Spike mumbled to himself.

"What's the point of this thing at all?!"

"And here comes the crazy rant..."

"First of all why is something like this designed when ponies clearly can't operate it? We have hooves for Celestia sake not appendages. Then there's using it. How could anypony select a book with the small wording and turning the pages can be humiliating if one doesn't know where to look? If I hadn't looked at the manual, I would've been turning the pages with my nose looking like a fool." Twilight ranted.

Spike raised an eyebrow, positive that he informed Twilight of how to turn the pages.

"But most of all..."

Spike backed up knowing the worst was to come.

"How can I add my books?! I have a huge collection yet there is no way for me to add them unless I have the internet. Next thing you know, they'd probably want me to re-purchase the books through Amazon in order to have them put inside this thing. Besides what is the internet anyways? Out of all my books there is nothing about it!" Twilight exclaimed.

Twilight let out a loud, irritated groan and tossed the kindle aside. Spike caught it before it hit the ground.

"That's it; I'm done with this thing. I'm just going to put away my books and work on my telescope." Twilight said as she started to put her books away.

Spike was about to speak up until a hiccup crept up on him. The loud hiccup let out some of his flames burning the kindle's screen. Twilight heard his burning hiccup and turned to investigate the noise. Spike paused for a couple seconds before trying to hide the burned device behind his back.

"Spike, what did you do?"

"It was an accident, I swear. I didn't mean to, it just came up on me and..."

"Spike it's alright."

"Huh? But I thought you'd..."

"It doesn't matter because I've realized how USELESS this kindle is to us ponies! Go ahead, do what you want with it. I planned on returning it anyways." Twilight crazily responded.

Spike was a little scared to see his friend go crazy once more. He thought of sending a message to Princess Celestia to see if she had a solution for Twilight's insanity. No sooner had the thought came to mind a knocking could be heard at the door. Twilight quickly opened it to see Derpy at her door once more.

"Oh hi Twilight, you aren't looking too good right now." Derpy said.

"Thanks Ditzy I haven't noticed. So what is it that you want because I'm very busy right now and...?”

"Oh well I'm here to pick up the package I delivered yesterday." Derpy answered.

Twilight was confused to what she heard. Derpy caught her expression and decided to give an explanation.

"I got a letter from the sender saying he wants to recall the package due to...um...unfortunate circumstances."

"Wait you mean the sender sent me something he knew that wouldn't work? Why would anypony due that?" Twilight asked.

"Don't know but he said that it was to be returned ASAP." Derpy finished.

Twilight quickly got the empty box it came in and put the kindle in it upside down so nopony could tell it was damaged. After re-sealing it, Twilight handed it off to Derpy with a crazed smile.

"Okay then...well I got go now so...bye." Derpy said as she quickly flew off.

Twilight sighed with great relief and started to make her way back to her room.

"Wait Twilight, it's damaged and you're just going..." Spike started but was silenced when her magic zipped his mouth shut.

"It's out of our hooves now therefore no longer our problem. Got it Spike?"

Spike nodded and felt his mouth unzip. He decided it was best to leave Twilight to herself the rest of the day and clean up the library. Meanwhile, Twilight went back to work on her telescope. After hours of pointless work, she could finally get something actually done. She began to work on it with her magic when she felt a tingling sensation in her nose. Twilight knew what this could spell and restrained the sensation back. A few second later she felt fine and started to get...

*Achoo*

The sneeze that she let out with her magic shot the screws out of place from her telescope, thus collapsing the thing. Twilight stared in disbelief of what had just happened. A few minutes later, Twilight saw what lay in front of her to be real and groaned at what a misfortunate day she had.

That's it. Hope you people/ponies liked it. If you feel as though you liked it, it went well, or II need to be maimed for something then do it in the comments or pm me. I'm always open for criticism no matter how brutal it is.

Comments

[Fluttrick]

In b4 featured. Good job man!

[jakol]

I have a Kindle, Twilight has a Kindle, 3 million other people have a Kindle.

Kindle friends of reading awesomeness!

The good: very funny, the story flowed well without unnecessary tidbits like I've seen in stories of this nature, the problem resolved itself quite nicely and neatly.

The bad: It could be just 1 chapter, but that's not really a downside. Description could be touched up, not not a huge problem

The ugly: Grammar. Some things were put out of place (specifically punctuation). Commas were underused, some words misspelled, and Capitilization could have been used to a much better effect.

Still, a great story. Take my damn mustaches.

(Edit) Second post.

[AppleOrPie]

You know what? I'm going to read this story on my kindle.

[Regidar]

Didn't someone already write a story about Twilight and Kindles?

[Distrance]

1515732
Considering people foam at the mouth towards these "X finds/uses Y" fan-fictions, I wouldn't be surprised.

[RainbowDreams]

1515797 I think it was Twilight finds Wikepedia

[Regidar]

1516058 No, I'm fairly certain there was another one of these... about a kindle and everything...

[Regidar]

1516058 Yeah, here it is.

[Infinity Blaze]

To do list:

GET UP AND BUY KINDLE ALREADY

[The Grey Pegasus]

1515797>>1516058
Yes... That was me. And Twilight.

... Literally two days ago.

[Regidar]

1516263 Yeah, that's what I thought!

I liked your version better anyway.

[The Grey Pegasus]

Full review now that I've read it. (And I'll try to be unbiased.)

It was generally rushed. Storyline is decent, though.

Grammatically, it's supposed to be "Dialogue," said..., not "Dialogue." said....
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And obviously I'd know how to turn pages if there's a manual there!
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Be quiet, Twilight. But she kinda does make a logical point.

[cyber_pony13]

1516263>>1515741>>1516063
After reading your comments I would like to thank you for criticism. Where to begin on this?

cheeseheadfoamy: Thank you on your review. I'm glad you hit me on my faults so I can improve my writing skills. What you said about my grammer being ugly, I would appreciate if you could tell me where I exactly messed up. The more brutal, the better I improve. Also rockin name, all hail the foamy!

Regidar: Really...someone beat me two it? Blast it all, oh well I should've published sooner. Thank you for providing the link because I will read the other story to see how I did.

The Gray Pegasus: It seems you beat me to it and I tip my hat to you...if I had one. Thank you for the review as well and I will read your story. Sadly though it won't be on a kindle.

Other than that thank you everybody for reading it and leaving a comment. Moustaches for all

[The Grey Pegasus]

1520775
Of course I beat you to it. Your blog post announcing it was on the 27th. I posted on the 25th, two days before. Your last blog post was September.

A little too coincidental if you ask me. Make of that what you will. I'm not going to be angry over it or anything, since there's really no point in doing so.

[cyber_pony13]

1520967
Why would I get mad about? I see your point though the funny thing is that it is purely a coincidence. Honestly I didn't know you were writing your story. I'm surprised that someone reads my blogs. Still congrats to you.

[Themaskedferret]

Cute idea but a few things really made me twitch.
One. No matter how preoccupied I cannot picture Twilight ignoring a package from a mystery sender, she has incredible curiousity.
Two. She may get fed up with it but she's not so amoral as to deny it getting broken. I could easily see her trying to admit it broke and derpy taking off before she can explain but not simply ignoring it and telling spike to forget it.
Third. It doesn't occur to her to use a pencil or something? That's a bit of a stretch.

Overall a nifty idea. I'll definitely check out your other works (Assuming there are some)

[cyber_pony13]

1523805

Thanks for the feedback I really appreciate it. Indeed I can see where you are getting at and I'm setting up something with the mysteries sender. Got any more irks hit me on them and try to be brutal.

[Themaskedferret]

1526781 *laughs and bows* I aim to please. How do you mean trying to set something up with the mysterious sender? The story is listed as complete, did you mislabel it? I don't try to be brutal just honest.

[cyber_pony13]

1528031
I'll pm you on what I mean. Also thanks for the honesty, it really helps.

[AppleOrPie]

To be bunt, after the excitement of reading this kind story on my kindle, I felt that it was inadequate. Twilight was way off-key in her attitude towards the kindle as she is normally excited to discover new things. This may have cause the story to leave out many important scenes such as the scene where Twilight bonds with the kindle or where she investigate what is an internet, imo. (Lol, TS x KD.)

[cyber_pony13]

1551502 Lol i love your how your response matches your profile pic. Hmm...didn't think about it that way but then again I'm barely starting at writing and still somewhat new to MLP. If you are interested I have future stories to be pushed out.