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by rodolphoarruda 4133 days ago
Stopped at step #3 of the activation process.

Amazon took me to my country's Amazon site. From there, the snippet button did not work. Also I could not get the precise action behind: "pick your Kindle devices, and you're good to go". So I stopped right there.

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Hey, sorry to hear you're having trouble.

The snippet scrapes the Amazon site for information about your Kindle devices. It's possible that it's failing because of different Amazon UIs depending on the country. There should be a message letting you know that it failed.

Make sure you're on the Amazon site when you click the snippet. If it's successful, there should be a list of devices that you "pick" by clicking the names. Once you click the "Activate Kindlebox", that should be it.

Please email me at swang93@mit.edu if you're still having trouble!

Hi, Unfortunately I've got the same on the amazon.co.uk (UK). there doesn't appear to be anything popping up to say that anything is wrong either.
Hey, thanks for the heads up. It's likely because I was matching the host string with "amazon.com". I just pushed a change that should fix that, so you may see the modal as you should now. It's possible there are still errors since I'll need more time to figure out how to scrape other countries' Amazon pages.

If something goes wrong, we can continue this over email at swang93@mit.edu. Thanks!