My wife wants a kindle. She's a serious reader, a book a week at least. I want the best model for reading, easy on the eyes, don't care about other uses like movies etc. Suggestions?
I've had every model except the new paperwhite, and the Fire is the best for reading everything except in bright sunshine. Does books, magazines, documents. Only about $150 right now. I don't use it for movies/music/web/etc, but you could. Pure reading.
Buy her something made in the USA? Seems like supporting overseas sweatshop labor and its profiteers in a communist country, enabled by the tax cheats at amazon, is the last thing a REAL american would even consider. You should be ashamed of yourself
Apple is the richest company "in" America, but has basically paid zero taxes throughout it's existence due to a complex scheme of offshore accounts and overseas business registries. As slimy as they come. The taxes they dodge are taxes our children will have to pay to China.
Any tablet doubles as a book if you turn it 90 degrees. This Blackberry has a little book icon in the corner--now I'm seeing each post in black and white, no graphics, as if it's a page in a book. You get a lot more computer functions and you don't pay much more. So I'd look at Brainiac's search results.
I am not a fan of apple, but the i pad air is a pretty amazing tablet. Incredible resolution, great for reading and would be a great CHRISTmas gift
The reason my wife prefers the Kindle (not the Fire) is because there is no backlight like a computer or tablet has. As a result, there is no screen washout or reflection in bright light (even sun at the beach- the screen looks terrific). The down side is because there is no internal backlight it cannot be read in the dark without a small light. All the other readers cannot be used in the sun and even in the house there's a lot of screen reflection. Also, there are several websites and blogs with access to, literally, tens of thousands of free books. Most are public domain, but some are legit current authors.
Get the Kindle Paperwhite hands down. I am getting Paperwhites for two of my kids for Christmas. You can read it in the bright sunshine, and in the dark without a light. There is a Nook version that had this first, but I prefer the Kindle because I do a lot of other stuff with Amazon and they have readers for just about any device, so if you happen to want to read something from you phone because you didn't grab the Paperwhite, you can. I also like that you can now get any book you ordered from amazon (even if you bought a hardcopy 15 years ago) for the kindle for like 99 cents. I have various tablets and they can work OK for reading books, but in the sun they are useless.
It really boils down to who you want to be stuck buying eBooks from. If you go Kindle, you'll be buying books through Amazon. If you go Apple, you'll be buying books through iTunes. There's a Kindle app for iPad, but it doesn't work as well as the Kindle. Something about how Apple charges a commission for apps sold through the app store limits what Amazon is willing to do.
