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Other people who might need more storage from their tablets: Original content creators, sound engineers, composers, filmmakers and field recordists. And those numbers should include amateurs, since content creation is one of the potential joys of owning a tablet for anyone.

That said, we have to stop presuming the KF is limited in terms of being a walled garden. I myself used to say this until I visited XDA and found that, when rooted, the Fire is a more flexible and powerful open Android Tablet than the Nook Color and other B&N offerings. People on that site have been ecstatic about their rooted experience with the Fire. Frankly, if I weren't watching my belt at the moment, I'd have grabbed one during Amazon's sale last weekend.

In the long run, I expect I'll need more power, though, and should save/lie in wait for sales accordingly. The iPad turns out to be quite a good device for music production on a small scale. The ASUS looks interesting, but I have yet to love the screen on any ASUS laptop or tablet I've tried so far. They always seem to skimp in that area. If the iPad runs a serviceable version of Logic, then it becomes the original music creation tablet for Android to beat. I'm hoping that Samsung will create something for Google after ASUS has its shot.

And I'd like a removable battery as well. Perhaps it's time for that feature to make a comeback on the same Android tablet that offers an SD slot or two.

And multiple dictionaries for the reader would be nice. Apple's inline dictionary is pretty, but it isn't going to help you if you're reading an Italian novel in which some of the words and phrases haven't been translated, or a bilingual edition of Mallarme.