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First - I've owned a first, second third and now the latest Touch Kindles. I LOVE my Kindle and read over 100 books a year, some for pleasure and some for my job. I really, really wanted to like the Fire I bought this last week. But after two days of giving it a full shake down, I returned it yesterday. Two main complaints:
1. The responsiveness of the touch screen was not what I was hoping for/expecting. Scrolling was a little laggy. Sometimes "buttons" took repeated touches before anything happened. (Surprisingly, my Kindle Touch seems to work better.) The whole user interface was not as user friendly as I would like. For example - removing a book from the device when I was done reading it does not remove it from the favorites, that took a second action.
2. The device never fully disappeared for me during reading like my e-ink readers do. Maybe it is the backlit screen, or the weight, or a combination of the two. It just never felt as comfortable in my hand and never "went away" as I read. I was always conscious of the fact that I was reading on it.
Between the two, the second was the deal breaker. I have some hope that software updates will fix the first. But I remember the joy of reading on my first Kindle, how after a few minutes I was buried in the story and forgot all about the device, and that never happened for me.
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