On Computers

Some readers have asked our opinion about whether to buy a Kindle, a Nook, an iPad or the new Google Nexus 7 for some home reading and viewing. So here’s our take.

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Amazon’s Kindle Fire has 54 percent of the Android tablet market. (The Barnes and Noble “Nook” is considered an e-Reader, rather than a tablet.) With that in mind, we thought it a good idea to take a look at “Kindle Fire: the Missing Manual,” by Peter Meyers; $20 from MissingManuals.com.

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Joy loves having a reading light on her Kindle 4. Sure it’s great that you can read the Kindle’s e-ink screen in bright sunlight, but sometimes you want to read it under the covers. We bought the Amazon Kindle Lighted Leather Cover for $60. It weighs only 4.8 ounces, comes in four colors and works well.

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When Joy showed Bob an advanced yoga move at the dining room table, she broke her Kindle 3 when her heel slammed down on the screen. Whoops. So we replaced it (the gadget, not the foot) with a new $79 Kindle, which is so light it nearly floats. It was a roundabout way of doing it, but that’s how we discovered what’s new with book borrowing.

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You just got a new Kindle Fire or Android tablet for Christmas. What apps might you consider first?

Any.DO is the web site for a free to-do list that includes voice recognition. Tell it to remember to get some milk and it stores that to your list. It also listens and captures any other task you need to do. You can collaborate with others in creating a list of tasks or objectives. It’s available on Android tablets and phones and is coming “soon” to the iPhone, iPad and the web. (When we signed up, there were 18,485 people ahead of us on the waiting list.)

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Now that we have a Kindle Fire and an iPad, we’ll add our own opinions on which to get: Should you spend $499 or more for the iPad 2 or will the $199 Kindle Fire be enough?

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A storehouse of three million free titles from the Google digital library may tempt us to get the new iRiver EBook reader. Target is selling it for $140.

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A new Kindle eReader that has ads sells for $114 and is handily outselling the $139 Kindle 3, which does not carry ads. Is it because people want to save the $25? Maybe not.

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John Locke, a well known author of sex and violence thrillers, is the first person to sell a million self-published books on the Amazon Kindle. He joins Steigg Larson, James Patterson and Amanda Hocking, a 26 year-old woman whose Kindle sales, while under a million, were high enough to get her a $2 million book contract with St. Martin’s Press.

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We stupidly questioned the quota limitations on downloading electronic books at libraries and quickly heard from every librarian in the known universe.

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