Review: USB cable is too thin and fragile
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 26, 2013
If you read while the kindle is being charged, over time the white coating cracks coating on the point below where the cable is inserted into the kindle.  The cable/wire bends and cracks and, eventually the wires break and the charger fails to charge the kindle.  I believe my recent purchse was the third or fourth one I have purchased over the years.  It needs to be as thick as a cellphone.cable, and still have the longer wire than a cellphone cable has.