The rumours of including Alexa were GREAT news for me. Despite having only got my Clara HD last week, if the new Kindle pushed all the right the buttons for me, I'd have been tempted to spend money I can't afford to get one. But Alexa is H*E*L*L* NO territory for me, along with every other smart home hub. I ike to be able to at least pretend there's a few minutes of the day when one of the tech megacorps isn't slurping my data, so any integratuion with something like Alexa, however limited, makes not buying it a no-brainer.