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Amazon Kindle Fire HD Tablet Review

Amazon Kindle Fire HD Tablet Review

You know for me I never saw the need for an Amazon Kindle.  I get all kinds of gadgets to play with and I have two tablets already, which I rarely use.  I ended up winning the Kindle Fire HD at a party at CES so I was pretty curious to see what all the buzz was about.  I do actually read a lot, but I tried to make the switch over to reading on tablets and it just did not stick.  I think the biggest thing was that I didn’t want to carry a large tablet around with me all of the time.  The Kindle Fire HD being only 7-inches is the smallest tablet I have owned or really spent an extended period of time with.  After taking it out of the package I said to myself, “wow this thing is small and who would want a tablet this size?”  But after using it for a few weeks it seems to be the perfect device to read on.  Of course there is much more you can do on the Kindle fire HD as well so let’s go ahead and get this review started!

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Unboxing the Amazon Kindle Touch

Unboxing the Amazon Kindle Touch

If you read a lot of books then you definitely should have a Kindle. With a Kindle you can store and access many books at a time, which is much more convenient than having an entire bookshelf of books. Today we are taking a look at the Kindle Touch. This is Amazon’s $99 kindle that features an E-ink display, supports text-to-speech, audiobooks and MP3′s and can hold up to 3,000 books. Read on to check out our unboxing and overview video. This is Jack’s first unboxing so let him know how he did in the comments!

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ASUS Pre-installs Kindle for PC Application on Award-Winning Netbooks and Notebooks

Fremont, CA (May 24th, 2010) -ASUS today announced that Amazon’s “Kindle for PC” application, which lets readers enjoy Kindle books on their personal computers (PC), will come pre-installed on select ASUS netbooks and notebooks sold at Amazon.com.  Kindle for PC enables customers to discover and read from over 540,000 books in the Kindle Store -the largest selection of the most popular books that people want to read — including New York Times Bestsellers and New Releases priced from $9.99. Like all Kindle apps, Kindle for PC includes Amazon’s Whispersync technology, which saves and synchronizes a customer’s notes, highlights, bookmarks and last page read across their Kindle, Kindle DX, PC, Mac and other devices*  so customers always have their reading material with them and never lose their place whether at home or on-the-go.

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