Some folks may have noticed that I haven’t written much about my experiences with the Kindle I purchased a while back.
Well…the screen went south on that one and it is unusable.
I’d held off on replacing it because I have the Kindle reader on my phone, so there wasn’t a compelling argument for me to have a stand-alone Kindle.
At least until Amazon had their sale last week offering refurbed Kindle Fires for $139.
Mine arrived yesterday. I’m still messing around with it trying to get things set up the way I want then, but expect some thoughts on the Fire in the nearish future.
(I actually do still agree with John Siracusa’s summary of the Kindle Fire: “a magical, colorful window through which you can give money to Amazon“. But my plans for the device mostly do not involve giving a lot of money to Amazon; rather, I’ve been loading it up with O’Reilly ebooks and public domain/free content.)
Edited to add: Interestingly enough, the Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson 3rd Edition
probably works much better on the Fire than it does on the regular Kindles. I’m willing to give Amazon $15.39 for that; Supica and Nahas are essential, but also an awful lot to lug around.