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Kindle Fire Review

From Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free ebooks. A Review of the Kindle Fire by our webm ster. !his review is not n offici l position or dvice from Project Gutenberg or the Project Gutenberg "iter ry Archive Found tion. !his review w s written for the #$%# models. &uch of wh t is s id is still v lid for the #$%' models.

Summary
Don't buy a Kindle Fire, buy a Nexus 7 instead. (r buy one of the not)Fire Kindle models if you c n live with n e)ink screen.

Details
If you want to read free ebooks, don't buy t e Kindle Fire. Am *on h s locked down the Fire to m ke it h rd to get ny content to it you didn+t buy from Am *on. ,t is huge step b ck in freedom from the Kindle '. -ven Apple h s not gone so f r s Am *on in locking down their devices. .ou c n e sily downlo d nd re d ebooks on Apple devices using only the st nd rd pps. .ou c n get free ebooks to the Fire too, but the process is so cumbersome th t it isn+t worth the trouble given the ltern tive of buying /e0us 1, which h ndles free ebooks with e se. !o be specific, there is no w y to downlo d free books from the web nd h ve the Kindle Fire store them perm nently or in the s me pl ces where your books from Am *on re kept. !his w s e sy with the Kindle '. /o more. !o work round this deliber te limit tion of the Kindle Fire you h ve to either2 3se P4 to send your files to the Kindle Fire, but th t will work only ne r your P4, or inst ll third p rty pp c lled file m n ger nd m nu lly move every book you downlo ded into the right folder, but th t m kes every downlo d of new book into do*en)clicks ff ir inste d of one)click t sk like on the Kindle ', or inst ll third p rty -P35 re der nd downlo d free -P35 books inste d of free Kindle books, but th t implies le rning nd using two different pps to re d books on the s me device. ,f the Kindle Fire w s the only g me in town you+d h ve to sw llow ll this, but fortun tely there+s n ltern tive th t doesn+t impose ll these limit tions on you nd costs even less. !uyin" t e #oo"le Nexus 7 you "et virtually t e same ardware and save $%&. !he sm llest /e0us 1 costs the s me s the sm llest Kindle Fire but includes w ll ch rger, which costs 6%$ e0tr for the Kindle nd h s no nnoying ds on the screens ver, which costs nother 6%7 to dis ble on the Kindle.

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