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My kids have had the Kindle Fire tablets for a few years. The hardware is pretty underpowered but they were super cheap. However the Amazon software on top of it is fucking TERRIBLE. To allow your kid to access a web site, you have to log into the tablet with your own PIN, twice for no reason, then wait for the horribly laggy app to load, then add the site, then go back to the kids' login.

My hopes for this Kindle reader wouldn't be high.

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I second this. It's an awful experience. Especially they're "all you can eat" kids buffet, FreeTime Unlimited. Constantly having to manage disk space. Searching and getting no/missing results for terms as basic as "dinosaurs". I bought three, for the price of one iPad, and after a few months just bought iPads because it was so ridiculous for the kids and for me to have to manage.

Plus one, we just got rid of our Fire tablet and FreeTime Unlimited. They constantly shift the content around, which means that we have to constantly go in and block out the garbage. Just let me whitelist stuff, and automatically blacklist anything new?

The tablet itself was grossly underpowered and not up to the task of just navigating around. While it did hold up to a kid, physically, it was not a great experience for anyone involved.

> Constantly having to manage disk space.

This problem could be resolved by Amazon. The devices could have "infinite" storage simply by using the on-device storage as FIFO buffer with the overflow in Amazon's cloud storage.

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