If I hadn’t been given one at my old job, I would not own an iPad. I’m not the kind of person who’d use a tablet to store extensive photo albums or record a song on GarageBand. Aside from iBooks, Kindle, Netflix, and Hulu Plus, my other apps — like Pages and Numbers — go completely ignored. I only use my iPad for entertainment purposes, to read and watch stuff when I’m away from my real computer, so I’m clearly wasting its full capabilities. That’s why Amazon’s cheaper Kindle Fire might be the perfect mini-tablet for a light user like me.
So far, I love using the Fire to read books. I know this puts me in the minority, but before the Fire, I actually preferred reading on my iPad to reading on my Kindle 3G, unless I was traveling. I liked downloading books on the 3G and reading them on the iPad Kindle App (the iBooks store never had enough titles) because I preferred the page-turn swipes to pressing a button, the lit screen was ideal for bedtime reading, and the pagination was clearer than on the Kindle 3G. The Kindle Fire combines the tablet reading experience and Amazon Prime’s awesome selection.
I’m also impressed with the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. READ FULL STORY »
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