Kindle Fire – Week 3 Review

Three weeks ago, an early Christmas present from my husband arrived –  a Kindle Fire, Full Color 7" Multi-touch Display, Wi-Fi.  I’m documenting my journey getting comfortable with it over the first three weeks. The 1^st week review can be found here; the 2^nd here. The review items for week 3 included:

• The Kindle will allow me to be more ‘paperless’ when I travel since its screen is large enough that I can read my itinerary. I simply put things in the inbox of the email that I might need. As long as everything synced while the Kindle Fire could communicate with the wireless network, the email is there while I am on the road and not connected to anything.
• I have also used it for a recipe again. This time I set the timeout for 45 minutes so didn’t have to touch the display while I was cooking.
• I discovered that the Internet Archive has a lot of their texts available in Kindle format. I downloaded several to read while I waited for my car to be serviced. Since it is an OCR’d version and there are bad characters/words occasionally. I will probably use the ‘read online’ version when I know I am going to be connected while reading.

At the end of week 3, I’m still very pleased with my Kindle Fire and am making good use of its features every day. Is there still more to discover? Probably…but the steepest part of the learning curve is done.