What Is Kindle?

I have been asked by several of my friends and family about my newest craze. What is Kindle! Are you kidding me, are you living under a rock? Okay I wasn't that mean to them. Some of them would never ever even think of going online or getting involved with technology, but that's okay, because even they could find enjoyment with a Kindle. 

This Page is not really meant to be a review of the Kindle technically. It is meant to be a love story, between me and my Kindle. 

I absolutely love my new Amazon Kindle Fire. Seriously! I can not ask for more. I love reading a book in color, The e-ink of the Kindle is fantastic, and I still love it. But I don't have any problem at all reading on my Kindle Fire. It feels and looks natural. 

But I also love so much more about the Kindle Fire. I love color. Kindle Fire is all Color. And with Amazon you get the beautiful streaming of movies and TV shows. 

My favorite old TV show is Star Trek and Voyager an Next Generation are my favorite in that order...maybe...it depends on the day I guess. Anyway, Prime with Amazon on the Kindle Fire has every episode...for FREE! yes there is a low yearly fee for Prime, $79, but it is so worth it. Thousands and thousands of movies and television shows, including current shows, like Glee. Gazillions of books and magazines. And with Prime you get two day upgrade for shipping for anything you purchase at Amazon for free. 

And lets not forget about the Apps, before Kindle Fire I knew very little about Apps. A few games on my phone, that was it. Well I'll tell you about games, tons!! But a lot more than just games. I get my weather forecast whenever I want it. I check CNN a few times a day. I have my dictionary. My twitter app. you name it, they have it. Basically many of the Android apps work for the Kindle Fire and many have been designed just for the Kindle Fire. It's amazing. 

The Kindle Fire is handsome, lightweight and easy to use one handed if you were planning to do some serious reading. It has great sound for your listening pleasure, I didn't even mention the music you can download and play. Wow! it just goes on and on. 

My husband is really crazy for music. Me not so much. I like it, But he has it on all the time, when he studies, when he reads, when he drives, when he washes the dishes. Yes, my husband, washes the dishes. 

Well the sound on the Kindle Fire is so wonderful, clear, and sharp that it is very pleasing to listen to. So because he loves it so much I had to find something that I would love too. 

Well I did it. I downloaded the soundtrack to Phantom of the Opera. It was thrilling. What a gorgeous soundtrack and what a great purchase. And you know you can play music in the background while you do other things on your Kindle Fire...like play games, or read. 

It is just so much fun. 

If you are going to hear any completes about the Kindle Fire it is going to be about the 8 GB of internal space that the Kindle Fire has. No you can not store 100 movies, 10,000 photos, every song ever recorded and millions of books on the hard drive of your device. 

so...

I just don't get the complaint. With the Amazon Kindle Fire you have access to "the cloud", which is Amazon's answer to unlimited storage space. They know we are going to keep wanting and we are going to keep buying and we are going to have to keep putting stuff somewhere. So we never run out of space, we have unlimited space. I don't understand how that is possible. I certainly am not very techy. 

But here is how I figure it. I have 5 movies on my Kindle Fire device, I have several episodes of Star Trek Voyager, I have some Photos and about five books. A ton of Apps, and enough games that I may die before I ever play them all. My point?  I still have tons of space on the device itself. So I am not feeling deprived. 

The fact that those things are on my device only means one thing. I can look at them without WiFi. So here is how I see it. My husband and I went on a road trip. We were not connected to WiFi, but we had movies, music, games and books that kept us entertained for hours. When we arrived at the McDonald's in one of the Cities we passed through we hooked up to their WiFi and put the movies we had watched back up into the cloud and downloaded a few more and off we went. Happy as we could be. It is just too easy and way too fun. In fact we bought a second one so my husband can have his own joy. 

Oh and that is another bonus for the Kindle Fire. I have two Kindle Fires for my Amazon Account and I pay only one Prime yearly fee. We buy the movie only once, the book only once, the music only once, the app only once. Anything in the cloud is available for both devices. All my husband has to do is download whatever he wants onto his device. It is just too cool. 

So do I care or feel deprived that the Kindle Fire only has 8 GB of total hard drive? Nope!