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I bought my kindle 5 years ago, it has yet to break. ￡27 would be half the cost of what I paid for it. These sort of things are a waste of money in any event. If it breaks within 2 years due to hardware failure, you're entitled to a refund anyway.

Nah. retailers like to tell you that you only get 1 year warranty, but EC Directive 1999/44 states that you should get 2 years warranty, and even the national legislation suggests a 6 year limit for claims for mechanical failure. This idea that they're only required to provide a product that works for 12 months is just a dodgy interpretation that the retailers have made to stop people claiming for faulty goods.

Consumer Reports has always recommended against them.

I don't buy protection plans unless something is very high-risk and the price is very reasonable. Heck, I don't even buy them for mobile phones. From a gambling standpoint, I've felt the odds weren't good that I'd use them, and so far I've been right. If you're very clumsy and tend to have bad luck with mobile electronics then I could see doing it, but if you're careful it doesn't seem worthwhile. My wife broke her Kindle screen once (we've both had one for years) on a camping trip by rolling over on it in her sleep and crushing it against very hard ground, but other than that we've had no issues.