You can, as long as your content was backed up to the cloud before it died. The content that would be available, to my understanding, would only be your books and other items in your library. I do not believe there would be a way to retrieve say pictures or MP3's you downloaded from the web directly to it. Your items that restored to it would have to come from the cloud. That would mean installing the Amazon Kindle app to get your books back, and say the Amazon music app to get your purchased content your items that restore to it would have to come from the cloud. to get back your purchased and/or your cloud content you would need the Amazon Kindle app to get your books back, and say the Amazon music app to get your MP3s back.