If you don’t want the whole media thing, just a reader and an audio book, the other Kindles also can be used as audiobooks. With the other Kindles you have to download the audiobooks to a computer and then to your kindle.
I haven’t tried to buy and download an audio from my Fire yet but since I just had to download the audiobook ap and sign in to access the library, I assume you can do that.
I hope you find what you want. I don’t think you will be disappointed whichever one you choose. All of the Kindles stay charged a lot longer than the Fire. I have had to charge it frequently.
Thank you all for a very fast courteous and intellectual response, I bet liberals don’t even bother with the Kindle Fire, probably too basic, too commoner, non-elitist and so on.
I gotta warm up the truck, its -18F and i have to drive 13 miles into town and pick up a few things, like a couple of books, that will be about $15 in gas for my 8.1 liter Silverado gasser round trip.