Deal on Kindle Fire today

[Lynn LeFey]

The Non-HD version of the Kindle Fire is on sale today on Amazon.com for $30 less than normal, which makes it about $130.

In case anyone's interested.

[Lynn LeFey]

So, just testing a post using a Kindle fire. Seems good so far.

[Grant Lamontagne]

Great tablet and a great deal!  Congrats Lynn!

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[Mr. Whippy]

I now wish I had gone for the Kindle Fire instead of Ipad3. 

[Lynn LeFey]

I've been running it through it's paces. I'm back on my laptop at the moment.

First and foremost, PDFs look great on it, and navigating through them is very fast on the current version. I understand that the first version (released last year at about this time) had less RAM and chugged on picture-heavy PDFs. As I got this mostly for Role Playing Game books, so I don't have to carry a small library to my game nights, this makes it perfect. It also means that I'll buy three or so PDF (instead of hard copy) books, and make up the cost of the tablet. And not have a book case loaded with more old ragged game books.

I watched a video on the Kindle, tried some Youtube videos, downloaded the Weather Channel app (for free), listened to some music to test the sound quality.

I'll get my 'survival library' loaded on this thing (some books on survival, farming, general mechanical stuff, first aid, etc, and about a hundred fiction txt books from project Gutenberg). The whole library is only about 2 gig.

As I'm not app-crazy, I think I'll be pretty happy with it. I'm not super-keen on the keyboard, so probably won't be doing a ton of typing on it, but it's not like my laptop died or anything.

I ran the battery down from full to about 1/4 in 5 hours of constant use. This sounds like about what's described, maybe a little less, but I was running the wifi pretty much the whole time.

So... yeah... I'm pretty happy with it.

[sir_mike]

We have used the Kindle Fire since they came out and my wife loves it.  I also picked up the Kindle Fire HD when it was released to upgrade her but she still played with the other one til a few days ago when she gave it to her mom to use.  Her mom likes it alot so now maybe my wife will use the Fire HD one I got her awhile ago!