Kindle Fire

I like mine, but don't use it for all that it can do. I mostly read and play solitaire on it. The kids LOVE IT though!!!!

We have solitaire, checkers, and some water game that my daughter downloaded and of course angry birds. The baby loves angry birds and the water game. My older daughter loves the water game. It has an alligator on it, not sure of the name. We have not had it that long and I really need to get better at learning all that it can do.

I just wanted the Kindle for reading but husband got me the Fire for Christmas.

We returned ours, but let me tell you why. We had purchased a Vizio tablet right before christmas for a little less than a kindle fire. We bought it for our 5 year old. He had asked and worked for an iPod Touch, but we thought this would be better because of the size. So he bought the Fire thinking it might be better... the only thing that he (my husband) really didnt like about the Fire is it was so easy to download/buy apps. There were no password blocks for buying the app. So we knew we would be charged for apps we really didnt want. Even on the Vizio some have slipped buy, but we were able to add a password before actually buying....
not sure if that helps???

We recently purchased a kindle fire for my 3 year old, and we had the same problem with how easy it was for him to purchase apps, so we turned off the wifi setting and put a password on the wifi so only my husband or myself can turn it back one. It has worked out really well, he can play games and watch videos that we download for him.
Two of my sons favorite apps are puffle launch, where's my water, and angry birds.
I also found a rugged case on amazon that's similar to an otterbox. I would definitely recommend it!

I haven't tried this, but a friend just told me that there's an app called something like "kid's place" that creates a folder for kid's games, and once kids go in, they can't go out without a password. She also said it turns off wifi, which would be a dealbreaker for us because the kid's main use of it is to watch Netflix before we wake up in the morning (but she thinks there may be a setting for this).

I don't use It to its full potential. But read, watch movies, surf net ext and love it. I am so amazed to hear people have bought it for little kids use though cause it was $200

I like mine; I like all the free apps, plus the "free app of the day" (even though I don't always get them), and also all the free books, both the old classics like "Pride and Prejudice" and new books that are occasionally free (on facebook and on the web, you can get Ereader News Today that has daily listings of free Kindle books; again, I don't get near all of the books that are available, most of them not being a genre I'm interested in [young adult, paranormal, horror - no thanks!], but I have downloaded some excellent and enjoyable books.

I've found the Kindle to be both a blessing and a curse -- often, I'll wake up in the middle of the night, and I *should* just roll over and go back to sleep, but if I get on the Kindle, I end up staying awake for a few hours. That's fine if I just can't sleep, and at least I can do something constructive, rather than going nuts trying to sleep; but often I think that I end up waking myself up, and keeping myself awake because of the Kindle. :-/

Two things I don't like about it -- typing on it [I'm a keyboard gal, and when the Kindle is turned sideways, the keyboard is *almost* big enough, but still too small and a little annoying to type much... and I tend to be talkative], and sometimes I've downloaded stuff (I click links, and it downloads PDFs instead of opens them in the browser), and if I don't read it **right then**, I have no idea where they're stored.

Apps my kids like include: Angry Birds, Where's My Water, Monopoly, some of the Math and Drawing games, Router, Touch Racing, Ants (smashing on the screen), and Beaver's Revenge. I have many other apps saved to the cloud to download if I or the kids want to play them, but I've actually already maxed out my space with all the free apps I've downloaded, so had to delete some from my device.

While I really like it, and I've gotten a lot of good feedback from other Fire users, not everybody likes it. One of my friends thought it would be like a mini-tablet, and was disappointed with it; it's really an "e-reader *plus*" not a "tablet *lite*".