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The KindleFire can do much more- I can use wifi to access websites, or read my kindle ebooks.
I have the adaptor plug and it fits both my Kindle and my Kindle fire.
Don't think so, OG.
The Fire HD (Philbert Fire) can do a lot more, and in colour. As you spotted the other day, I loaded Facebook onto it. You can watch films, download music, link it to bluetooth, and skype. We skyped Australia for 2 hours yesterday morning, which used about 40% of the battery charge. The quality is far better than my 4 year old laptop, and doesn't have any of the intrusive steam-train noises that we got there. I get the BBC headlines and can watch the video clips. I've loaded Yahoo too.
There is a camera app, OLG, though I haven't got it. Can't work out how it could possibly function, actually. If I'm pointing the camera away from me, how will I be able to press any button onscreen? Or maybe it's one of the ones on the side?
The Fire HD is actually a tablet in miniature - there's even an Office-type suite on there, which you can upgrade for 11€ to do more than the basics.
You are recommended to buy the faster charger for the Fire, which you wouldn't need for the PW - especially if you have the Android phone type with the flat plug. It works on the Fire, but takes a lot longer.
So for your £30 difference in price you do get a lot more - it just depends whether you want it all.
I know the Samsung tablet has a camera connection kit and I wondered if the Kindle HD also had one. It looks as if my next tablet will be a Samsung.
If you have Amazon Prime, you can stream an awful lot of stuff to watch for free, loads really quickly and doesn't seem to need to buffer whilst it's running.
I love it.
I don't find it too heavy at all. The cover I bought (not an actual Kindle make) has a stand affair for watching things or skyping. (The cover is a good investment - I bought Kevin's on a stall in Milton Keynes for £20).
Lizy, by the way, you don't have to hold either bookwise - you can turn them on their side and the screen contents shift to accommodate; so if you have a larger font, like me so as not to have to wear my specs, you can have the page set up differently.
The iPad with 3G is fabulous as it work virtually anywhere and means if the internet goes down i can still see stuff.
Pages - as I said in my earlier post, I create a document of photographs on every holiday. When I get home I download it to the iMac. I recently returned a document that had been edited on the Mac and the iPad couldn't load it. It said the document had been saved in the latest version of Mac Pages and would only load in the latest version of iPad Pages - which does not work on iPad 1.
I am unhappy about the way Apple have treated people who bought the first generation iPad. I shouldn't be anywhere near ready to change yet, but it is virtually useless for my needs because of things beyond my control (but within Apple's control). I don't intend to reward them for their shabby behaviour by buying another iPad.
My next computer, however, will almost certainly be a Mac. Whatever I think of Apple's treatment of their customers, there really is no alternative.
For other things a Kindle Fire HD can do...
To access settings, you need to put your finger on the black bar at the top of the page and drag down to reveal a different set of headings including More - tap on that and you'll get to Settings, which is where you'll find the on/off switch for Wifi, Bluetooth, Airplane mode, and so forth.
Is that what you wanted?
I want to be able to put my own work on it because I'm considering publishing an ebook. Can I do that with a Kindle Fire - or a Sony Make-believe, which I looked at today?
If they've only got 2 ports then it doesn't sound as if a pen-drive transfer would be possible,
Or you can send your work to your Kindle email account.
I intend to do the same when I've finished writing the darn thing, to see how it reads. No, you can't use a pen drive on Kindle. I've read that today on some forum or other.
Meanwhile I was thinking as I lay awake last night - I have 2 email accounts so if I email a doc to myself from my laptop I could open it with the tablet, I suppose.
As the Kindle tablet uses Android I expect that Google Drive will work on it. I use Google Drive all the time - it just shows up (on a computer) as another directory. I've not yet used it on a table (although I have used iCloud) but I expect it will be similar.
There's no 'right' way of doing it - it all seems to work well enough.
Or is there a simpler way of doing it?
I've Googled the Sony and other readers and it appears that whatever e-reader you buy restricts what books you can buy. I haven't seen a universally acceptable device yet.
Scrivener has options to convert for ePub (Nook, iPad, Sony and others) and mobi (Kindle) formats. You can then read through your novel or whatever on your e-reader. It doesn't say how you get it from laptop to e-reader, but maybe that's obvious.
If you haven't got an e-reader, it recommends software like Adobe Digital Editions so that you can see how your book is formatted as an e-book, and can make any relevant changes before you send it out.
Bear in mind that until I bought the Kindle Frie HD I was computerly challenged - see what it's done for/to me!
The online users' guide is ...yeah... long and I'm struggling already.
*feels old and stupid and definitely technically-challenged*
Put it this way: could you just get on a motorbike and ride it without instruction? No - neither could I. (Last time I was on a motorbike - an 850cc Norton Commando as it happens - I shared it with a bearded man and a guitar in a hard case. and I looked like a pillock in the helmet.)
It is just a matter of trying different things- start with simple things, and go from there.