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We are going to get our oldest grand daughter (age 15) and grand son (age 18) a Kindle, but need a recommendation on which one - Kindle or Kindle Touch? Also is the Kindle Fire worth the additional cost and something that we should seriously consider? Neither one of them have had an e-reader. They do have WiFi at home.
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Go for the kindle fire. I have both and prefer the fire. If I want to surf the net, download android apps or read a book, the fire does it all! -
If they will be using it as an e-reader, and have another way to access the Internet (and it appears they do), I wouldn't recommend Kindle Fire. IMHO it is much heavier (the Fire), which makes it more difficult to hold. If used for several hours a day, you will be charging Kindle Fire often, like every couple days, A regular Kindle can go for a month or so between charges. If they read outside, like on the patio, at the pool, on vacation, Kindle Fire will have a lot of glare, because it has a shiny screen. OTOH, Kindle Fire is in color, where the standard Kindle is e-ink. Color is pretty, but e-ink is easier to use.
Regular Kindle or Kindle Touch? If they snack while they read, I don't think touch is a good idea. I don't have touch, and I don't find it difficult to use the buttons on the edge to turn the pages. I can do it with either hand
Go to Wally World, or Best Buy and see them on display so you can see what I mean.
Fern
Originally posted by riverdees05Fern Modena
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I have both the Fire and Kindle 3 (now known as Keyboard). I love love love my Fire. I loved the 3. My granddaughter,14, got the Touch for Christmas and was very disappointed she did not get the Fire.
I consider the Fire a mini-ipad.
NancyComment
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I bought DD (16) Kindle Touch with the Ad's for the savings. It's not bothersome to her at all. Most of the ads are when it's "sleeping" on the screensaver. Tap it and they are gone. I agree with Fern. The regular Kindles are MUCH lighter than the Fire. I have the Fire but I wanted the tablet-ish of it. My DH uses it to play games. Fern is also correct about the charge. Fire goes on the charger most every night. The touch hasn't seen the charger except a couple of times since Christmas.Originally posted by riverdees05 View Post
If the kids are voracious readers..my daughter is-then I think they would be real happy to have any e-reader. Coolness factor of the Fire, aside.Comment
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This is me exactly! I got the 3 last year for Christmas and then the Fire this year. I don't have a tablet so the first is nice. I have some vision issues so I actually like reading on the Fire (bright white screen, black print) than the regular Kindle ink. Of course if I was reading outside, I'm sure I would prefer the regular Kindle.Originally posted by Nancy
I also second what people have said about size/weight and battery (length) better on Kindle. But I love being able to read on the Fire in bed with just a small bedside light. Can't do that with the regular Kindle.
I don't recommend the Kindle 3/keyboard, get one of the new Kindles. If you don't get the Fire, be sure to get the 3G, that way they are not limited to places where there is wireless. You can surf the internet on the regular Kindle, it is just a lot more work. My husband ordered clothes for me online while at his mother's house (no wireless). It took him a long time, but he did it.
Puppymom in MOComment
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To me it is a no-brainer. I have a Kindle Fire and strongly recommend it. You can read books on it. I have read 4 in the last 3 weeks. But you can also do so many other things. You can access the web, do emails, play games, steam movies/shows, etc. The email app that comes with it is much better than my computer and it handles POP3 very well. Yes, the battery life is not as long but you can recharge it very quickly. As a side note, you should turn off the wi-fi when reading books etc, that doesn't require an Internet connection. This improves the battery life considerably.
If you do get a Kindle Fire, I also recommend that you get "Amazon Prime". You get a free month when you buy the Kindle Fire. The cost is only $79 for a year. The benefits far out weigh the cost.JohnComment
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It appears to be very much a personal reaction. We both have Kindels (both wi-fi enabled, one large, one small) and we had a Kindel Fire before Christmas--early present we immediately began using. We really hated the Fire. We used it about a month and returned it to Amazon. The "shiny" screen is impossible to read in bright sunlight, and we both read outside or in the sunlight often, and we really didn't like the limited aps available for it, nor did we like its responsiveness when we used it for the web. For us, the Fire was a true loser: it had few of the advantages of either the Kindel or a tablet.
For not much more than the Fire, we bought an Acer tablet and downloaded the ap so we can read all our Kindel stuff on it. It still has a shiny screen, so it really isn't very good in the sunlight, but it is sooooooo much better for the web, and it has the ability to use all aps---which the Fire simply doesn't have.
Since for most kids today, the aps are really important, I'd recommend getting Kindels for reading and forgetting the aps entirely or else getting a small tablet (like our Acer) that will do "normal" aps. (In addition, the Acer has a front and rear camera and a built-in GPS).
I forgot to say that if you buy the small Kindel, you can buy a cover that has a light incorporated. The light charges when the Kindel is charged and doesn't seem to change the 3 or 4 weeks the Kindel stays charged. The large size Kindel has no cover with a light."You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity." Adrian RogersComment
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I don't know how many apps you need. There are thousands of them. I had no trouble finding what I wanted. In any event it depends what you want to use it for. It is not a replacement for a laptop nor a reader. For me it is a good compromise at a low cost that does all I would ever want from a tablet and it does it well as well as being a reader. I don't lay out in the sun so the screen isn't a big deal for me.
There have been some recent software updates that have improved it. The updates are loaded and installed automatically when you power the Kindle Fire up.JohnComment
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