I pre-ordered the Kindle Fire today !!!!! I am so excited, I think I might explode .

I looked up the kindle fire pros and cons, and I like it. It's not really trying to compete with the Ipad or other android tablets.. It's doing it's own thing and seems to be focusing on a family type group.

Even though it's set to improve by mid 2012, at the 199.00 price, it's a good buy and Amazon has a lot of books, videos and movies to purchase and use. There is a limit, however, as to how many movies you can store at one time, as of now,

If I didn't already have the Kindle 3, I'd consider the Fire.

I am SOOOOOO jealous!!!!!!!

Unless I manage to convince my dad to buy it for me, I cant get the Fire for awhile. If I can sell my Kindle 2 and my Kobo reader for some decent money, I might be able to afford the Fire. But, I kind of like my little family of ereaders...I'd be sad to get rid of them, even tho I cant use them all at once.


Maybe I'm a hoarder of ereaders?

I almost panicked today. I was out with my parents, and was waiting for my dad. I was reading my Kindle 3 (which Amazon has renamed and they're now known as the "Kindle Keyboard") and it froze up...wouldnt do a thing. I rebooted and it wouldnt turn back on.

I was talking to Kindle CS and just when they got on the phone with me, the Kindle rebooted and started working again. (darn! I might have convinced my dad to get me the Fire if my K3 died...) Crisis averted!

Really, I think I'm going to be saving loose change and anytime I get change smaller than a $5, it'll be going in my change jar to be eventually turned into the Kindle Fire. I think that'll be kind of fun to do.

My daughter is buying me a Kindle for my birthday but I've elected not to get the "Fire", even though at less than $200, it's really cheap to buy. There's been quite a bit of negative literature about it already so I chose to go with something tried and true. Sorry but I can't share your enthusiasm Erin.

Here's one of the articles I read about "Fire"

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011...naked+security

Sheesh, Anne, thanks. I never even thought of the security risk. Of course, even browsing on my old laptop is a security risk, I guess.

I'm sure browsing on my new Android phone is a problem too. They've probably already noticed that I looked up some risque fan fiction sites on the internet before I even left the store with it.

Since I cant afford the Fire yet, I'm probably not going to be in the first group of people who buy it like I was when the Kindle 3 came out last year. I have to wait till I can afford it, and I'm kind of liking the idea of waiting, because I'll need a cover for it, and after the bad experience I had last year with the Amazon made cover they sold me (the connectors that held the cover on the Kindle fried my Kindle) I'm waiting for a 3rd party company to develop some covers. The third party covers are usually nicer anyways.

Unless my dad wins the lottery before Xmas, I probably wont be getting the Fire till after New Years or later next spring. Hopefully that's enough time to get the beta testers (the people first in line for the Fire) to work out all the kinks.

All of the sites I go to now on my current K3, my iPad and my home computers are probably being logged by someone somewhere. So, I'm not going to be surprised if Amazon is logging everything. Heck, Amazon is constantly already sending me suggestions for thing they think I want to buy based on books and other things I've looked at on their site. I wish it would stop suggesting some of the things it does, because it's usually junk that I was looking up for my dad, or a link I followed from somewhere that took me to a product page on Amazon that I didnt want to go to.

I'm jumping on the band wagon early for entirely practical reasons. The husband has been extremely nice lately (he's terrified that he'll have to pay me support after we divorce) so I have to take advantage of this while I can .

I was reading the thread about the senior discount and thought of Erin and her habit! She needs to save all the money she can to support this habit.

I found a review for the most recent Kindle to be released. (pretty sure this is the $79 Kindle that I think is the only one of the new Kindles that are immediately available...think the others come out on Nov 15th) The $79 Kindle is available now, so people are starting to leave reviews of them.

I found this one on a Kindle forum I go to

It's a pretty good review. Gave me a lot of information.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSCq9...ayer_embedded#!

One of the things I was surprised to find out is that the $79 Kindle doesnt have an audio player, so no speakers...I guess that means no Text-to-speech either... (deal breaker for me...not getting the $79 Kindle)

I had to go look up to see if the Kindle Touch has Text-To-Speech. It can play Audible files, so I'm assuming it has the TTS, but havent confirmed that. Kindle Keyboard (originally called Kindle 3) still has the TTS, but the Kindle Fire does NOT have TTS.

So far, I'm glad I cant afford a new Kindle yet. I'm learning information that's helping me decide which one I might want to get. I may end up waiting till something happens to my current Kindle before I get another one.

Get the Galaxy 10.1 4G on Verizon and you'll have the best of all. It has a Kindle app and you'll always have the best service. I have one and I love it. It blows the rest away.