I might be one of the few who bought the Fire primarily as a reader. I use the tablet features with a few apps, but honestly I never intended the Fire to be used as a tablet. I spend at least 90% of my Fire usage time reading--period. As such, it has been the absolute, all around best reader I've ever owned. Nothing comes close to it in terms of devices with an LCD display as far as reading books is concerned. The new iPad now has a high resolution screen which probably does an excellent job of rendering text, unlike the pathetic job done by the iPads 1 and 2, but it is still way too big, bulky, and heavy to read on for extended periods of time. Nor is the iPad designed as a reader--it is a tablet.

As far as tablets go, I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that the current form factors of nearly all available tablets in iOS or Android or totally insufficient for my uses and none of them have the slightest chance of ever superseding my desktop and/or laptop. They are toys compared to desktops and laptops. Perhaps when Win 8 is released tablets will START to become truly useful, but the touchscreen interfaces that currently exist are pathetically non-useful. I can accomplish a hundred times more in a fraction of the time using a desktop or laptop than I can on any tablet. Until that significantly changes, tablets might be fun, but they are still just toys.