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Best Amazon Fire tablets: Fire 7 vs Fire HD 8 vs Fire HD 10

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An ultra-thin design with A12 Bionic chip with Neural Engine and Supports Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard 1st generation. Note-taking apps?

A Kindle does only one thing. It lets you read. No distractions. Do you want to read books together with your kids? A child needs color and wants to interact. A Kindle is just boring.

iPad Air vs. Kindle Fire HDX: Which is the best tablet?

What you need to know is that once you buy an ebook in one ebook platform, you will have problems with moving it to another one. If you buy an ebook in the Kindle Store, you can read it on your Kindle or in a Kindle app on your iPad.

As you see, an iPad is a much better device if you want to have access to different ebook ecosystems. You can use it to read an ebook you bought when you had your first iPhone, but you can also read ebooks from Google Play or Kindle Store.

Kindle vs. iPad – which device is better for reading?

The newest entry-level Kindle e-reader sports built-in adjustable 4 LED front light system, crispier glare-free display, and all-new design. Available in black and white. This sleek e-reader sports the all-glass front, is ready to play Audible audiobooks, and withstands immersion in 2 meters of water for 60 minutes.

Where do you like to read most? At home, in the evening, or maybe outside, on the beach or in the garden? Because in the sun, a screen of an iPad is dark. You will hardly see anything.

As I wrote above, an LCD screen shows images thanks to emitting light from behind. Its screen works differently. A display consists of thousands of microcapsules. An image — a text of a book — is created when microcapsules are positioned with either their dark or light side. Magnet-secured case with 8 stand angles. Wireless Apple Pencil charging support, 5ft drop protection, car industry materials. Also for iPad Pro Premium quality tempered glass screen protector from amFilm Glass — a brand trusted by millions of customers.

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Info Posts Twitter Blog Mail. On Amazon, you can get Audible gift membership plans in two easy steps similar to buying Amazon gift cards. The Fire also doesn't have a microphone, so voice recording and Skype-style chat are out. And the Fire is Wi-Fi-only, which means users will be able to surf the Web and download content like books from Amazon only when they have a connection.

The iPad also comes in 3G models, albeit at a higher price. The Kindle Fire promises eight hours of battery life, as opposed to 10 hours for the iPad 2. Finally, the Fire has only 8GB of storage compared with the iPad 2's bottom end at 16GB but makes up for it by offering free cloud storage on Amazon's gargantuan bank of servers.

The Fire will run on a modified version of Google's Android operating system. That means users will have access to several thousand apps in Amazon's app store for Android. The iPad, of course, has access to more than , apps in the Apple Store.

So, advantage iPad on this one. Amazon has, of course, optimized the Fire for its own content, like streaming movies, e-books and music. It also will come with a day free look at Amazon Prime, the company's premier service that offers free two-day shipping of products from Amazon.

On the surface, both tablets appear to be good options for people who just want a basic portable computer for light Web surfing and content consumption. The Fire doesn't go on sale until November 15, so you'll have plenty of time to read reviews of the device by then.