An Amazon success, with more annoyance

[mtbc]

Given that I have long-haul travel coming, I realized that one thing that could make it more bearable might be taking the opportunity to watch plenty more of The Expanse (2015) on my Amazon Fire 10. After all, it may be that I can download the remaining episodes now then watch even in airplane mode.

This turned out to not be a quick check. Amazon doesn't easily handle multi-country activity so I must have both US and UK accounts. My Fire 10 was last associated with my UK Amazon account so it couldn't see my Prime subscription. It appears not to be able to switch my Prime Video viewing to my US account without switching the whole tablet, and various other app-related data or whatever seems tied to the account, not simply the tablet. No doubt it makes sense for others somehow but, for me, the sole user of the tablet but with multiple accounts, it's a real pain. Even my ssh client stopped working after the switch.

Apps are now reinstalled, rechecked, etc., my Prime subscription has become visible and, indeed, I can download whole seasons of a show, put the tablet into airplane mode, reboot it, then watch episodes. So, it worked out in the end but, goodness, what a fuss to get there.

Comments

[mtbc]

Mmm, I have a couple of close friends who can nap just about anywhere and anytime. (-:

[thewayne]

I'm one of those who can sleep anywhere/any time. But audiobooks are also a sure way usually, they're just not for me. My wife loves 'em, friends love 'em, just not for me. Whenever I fly, I have my iPad and laptop(s), but usually I'll read a little and just sleep.

I can't do ear buds as I wear hearing aids, but a friend of mine gave me an awesome set of Bose head phones. I have to turn the hearing aids off, which I can do through my phone app.

As a thought with your Kindle, have you experimented with a VPN to make it think it's in the UK? Might that make obtaining media easier?

[mtbc]

My hearing is good but I don't decode the sounds into speech quite as readily as most so, together with the engine noise, audiobooks wouldn't be my first choice either; I'll be reading the closed captions on whatever I watch.

Alas, my Amazon Prime membership is US-based. For Amazon, one typically needs the IP geolocation to match the membership's domicile. But, yeah, if I'd still had UK-based membership, that'd have been a possibility. Netflix tends to be a bit more lenient, one can see shows for one's geolocated IP regardless of one's membership's domicile.