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What the hell is an Amazon Kindle for?

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Craig234

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I have a Kindle Fire HDX 8.9.

I can't find a use for it. It has a camera. I can read kindle books on it. I use it mainly for a little bit of android gaming.

It's hard to see what it's supposed to do for the price.
 
If it were a regular Kindle, I'd say read books. For a Kindle Fire, I'd say consume media. That is, surf the internet, watch videos, etc. If that sort of thing doesn't appeal to you (and there are plenty of people for whom it wouldn't), I'm not entirely sure why you would have bought it in the first place.
 
The size of the market for tablets suggested they must be good for something. Then you see a sale and... let's find out what this is all about. I thought I'd use it for books.

That made some sense - lower prices (sometimes), and save the space the books would take.

I took a chance on an echo, and am enjoying it a lot for music.
 
Echo I have a ton of use for and love mine. Kindle fire? No thanks. I have a kindle for books and a laptop for other uses.

My son is 3 and has a Kind Fire Kids... but that thing blows and crashes all the time. But he's 3 1/2 so he can deal with it 🙂
 
My primary tablet uses are:

- Reading books
- Watching Netflix / Prime / Plex
- Streaming music
- Web browsing

In other words, consumption. Generally while I am on the couch or sitting in an airplane. As mentioned already, if you aren't looking for a media consumption device then a tablet probably isn't going to be of much interest to you.

I think however you have summed up a lot of people's experiences with tablets. Everyone has one so they must be great. Then half of them sit on a shelf and never get used.
 
Kindle Paperwhite - reading
Kindle Fire - watching

I imagine it's for anyone who heavily uses Prime Video?

Personally, I find nearly zero use for a tablet. My wife and I were gifted an iPad mini last winter, and after 6 months we ended up giving it to our sister-in-law.
 
The big advantage for Kindle tablets (not the e-readers) is being able to download many Prime videos if you're a prime member for playback if there's no WiFi.
 
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Artdeco said:
The big advantage for Kindle tablets (not the e-readers) is being able to download many Prime videos if you're a prime member for playback if there's no WiFi.
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Welllllllllllllllllllllllll I didn't know that, that's awesome :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
 
Artdeco said:
The big advantage for Kindle tablets (not the e-readers) is being able to download many Prime videos if you're a prime member for playback if there's no WiFi.
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You can do that with regular Google Android as well can't you? I do it on my phone all the time.

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I use my Android tablet for pretty much one thing: Reading comics. I have a bunch I bought through Play Books. My old android tablet died so I had to buy a new one.
 
My mother in law bought the wife and sister in law the little $50 Amazon Fires for Christmas.

I really haven't messed with it much, but she loves the thing, from what I've seen it's pretty nice for $50. She uses it around the house all the time now instead of her phone for facebook, video stuff, etc. Yeah, we have Prime also.

She has one of my old gaming PC's in the guest bedroom for household things she hasn't even turned on much lately.
 
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Raduque said:
I use my Android tablet for pretty much one thing: Reading comics. I have a bunch I bought through Play Books. My old android tablet died so I had to buy a new one.
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Videos, comics, and magazines.

Lots of free digital magazine subscriptions available since it costs the publisher almost nothing to give them out.
 
The fire specifically exists to interact with the amazon ecosystem

Amazon Video
Amazon Music
Kindle Books
Shopping
Amazon app store.

Nothing you can't do on a general purpose tablet (except maybe the kindle lending library?) It just puts all that stuff front and center.
 
Yuriman said:
Kindle Paperwhite - reading
Kindle Fire - watching

I imagine it's for anyone who heavily uses Prime Video?

Personally, I find nearly zero use for a tablet. My wife and I were gifted an iPad mini last winter, and after 6 months we ended up giving it to our sister-in-law.
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What doesn't make sense is there are kindle and amazon video apps that work great. Why wouldn't someone just use those instead of getting locked into the horrible FireOS?
 
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