Ants use woman’s tablet to buy some books

A woman who left her Kindle idle for two weeks was horrified to discover ants had crawled inside it and started buying books, Report informs referring to Daily Star.

Mariana Vieira, 32 from Brasilia, Brazil fetched her Amazon book reader from the shelf she left it on July 26 to put it on charge ahead of a trip.

It charged up as usual but when the writer tapped it dozens of ants came out.

Speaking to TecMundo, she explained that she left the now-charged device on a window but started getting mysterious notifications on her phone.

"After a few minutes, I got a notification: 'Congratulations on your purchase'," she said. The ants had somehow managed to buy Isaac Asimov's sci-fi novel Robots and Empire.

Initially Mariana assumed it was a mistake. She rushed back to the Kindle to find it open on the shopping page with the touchscreen no longer working.

Then the ants managed to buy O Anel de Gyges, a fantasy book by Eduardo Giannetti.

Luckily she has since been able to cancel both purchases.

Mariana's friend Fabiane Guimarães shared the story on Twitter on July 28 in a post that has racked up thousands of likes.

Fabiane is also to thank for the fact that the Kindle still works. She told Mariana to try putting in a plastic bag and freezing it.

"I thought it was a little extreme, but as it wasn't working anymore, when I got home I put it in the freezer," she said.

Amazingly, the Kindle came out of the freezer with a working touchscreen.