[Tarana]

I don't enjoy reading with a Fire as much as an ereader, but both my sisters have pretty much abandoned their ereaders to read on the Fire. Will the one sister pick up her Kindle Touch again? Probably in the summer as she reads outside all summer and nothing compares to eink technology there. The other sister gave me back the Nook I gave her. The biggest complaint is the power consumption. You MUST recharge every 7-8 hours, which is a real drag. My sister bought an extra long cord so that she could just stay plugged in while reading.

I have a higher end Fire. I use it for editing and apps and reading pdf files (mostly cooking/craft magazines), but I kept it mostly because of the superb Text-to-speech (I have vision damage). Otherwise, I prefer ereaders for the glareless enjoyment of reading as well as the low power consumption.

My Mom uses her Fire when Netflix is working poorly on the PS3 and to read the local newspaper. She prefers reading on her PPW.

As mentioned by another poster, the disadvantage of the Fire over other tablets is that you are locked down to Amazon unless you sideload. I can read Kindle, Barnes&Noble, Kobo on my Nook HD+ (as I could on any other tablet). I can only download from Amazon's cloud on the Fire. Not too annoying for me since I have Calibre and can load it, but I cannot benefit from cloud libraries with this restriction.