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I was just personally at a point where I wanted to explore if I was ready to have a secondary tablet to my primary ipad2. I'd say so far I am. I do still have reservations about that second tablet being a fire given it's short comings and bugs so far but because I am someone within the amazon environment, if I was going to have a second tablet, I wanted it to be a fire. I am a prime subscriber, my ebooks are kindle(i also have the kindle touch upgraded from a kindle keyboard) and since the kindle, I have since begun using the cloud drive to store music on and play thru the kindle even though I am primarily a spotify guy.
To take it further, as someone mentioned before, reading on a backlit screen on the fire vs the ipad2 is a huge difference for me as well. Even though the kindle app on fire is inferior to the ipad counterpart in functionality, the size of the kindle makes a huge difference and over the weeks, I have really grown to love having that smaller device to hold over trying to read on a ipad2. that said, I do find times I wish I went the route of the nook color2, videos just look better, rootable to get kindle app, zippier, sd slot, etc.., but the integration of prime videos, the music cloud drive, fleeting hope for upgrades that will take care of some of the bugs and shortcomings still has me valuing the kindle above all as far as a secondary tablet in that screen size department. Also, end of the day, it would sure be hard justifying a second tablet at a price point anything beyond the fire.
I will always use my ipad2 to do web browsing, emailing, slingboxing/netflixing, spotify and the rest of what ios apps bring but for specific things like backlit reading at night or catching a episode of star trek or something before i doze off, the fire is fitting that bill of having a smaller, secondary tablet I was seeking.
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