I got my new Kindle Fire last week and I like it so much I’m getting my son one for Christmas. All the praise
you have read on here is accurate. I watched an episode of ‘Planet Earth’ last night and was amazed at the sharp picture.
I bought the original Kindle when it first came out. The ebooks then were never more than 9.99 and I got a lot of really good books that I have gone back and re-read many times.
My son and I have always shared books and when I found out that you can have as many as 6 devices on your account and share the content, I got him a Kindle.
My husband likes audio books and we have an account with Audiobooks.com and one of the first things I did was check out our audio library and it is compatable with the Fire.
So I can read books and magazines, or listen to a book while I am knitting.
You can surf the web with it and you can set up an outside email account such as yahoo, hot mail or your own private one if you choose.
But don’t expect an ipad, its a media device and a very good one. You can also get some ebooks on Amazon from free to .99,1.99,2.99. Some libraries also lend ebooks.
Now that I find very interesting, often on long flights I just get tired of keeping my eyes open hour after hour either reading or watching a movie, but hearing an audio book is different. I will have to head back to Amazon and see just how that works, so far I’m sold, for reasons some might understand I don’t want to be an Apple fan, I do not want to spend $500 or more on a tablet just yet, I won’t even be going back to work unless for some reason somebody WANTS me to work and my seasonal job won’t appear until next april unless I fly down to Australia and work their summer but for other reasons this year I am stuck in Alaska this winter.