Krappy Kindle

Why am I so unlucky with kindles? Every. Single. Kindle. I’ve owned was crap. As a bookworm, this is a Real Problem people!! I should be able to read my precious ebooks whenever I want in the most perfect, comfortable and brilliant piece of device technology has to offer. Yet..

That is not the case.

A little backstory: After my epic fail with my first one, Kindle Keyboard, which is obviously outdated, black and white screen, slow, hard to use and no touch screen with limited internet access. I threw it away and moved on to an iPad. Yup, I ditched Amazon for Apple..BURN!

I was pretty happy about my iPad 4. It was sleek, fast, colorful and easy to use. Unlike, ehm the other one. *stink eye -look above- So you may be wondering, why get the Kindle  Fire 7 then?

Because I DIDN’T! Well…technically speaking, I did. bUT not on PurpoSe!! OkaY! Excuse my weird typing my fingers were angry. -__- Ok, you might remember a little while ago I posted about my Black Friday Book Bonanza. Where I talked about the craziness of that day. Well, while I was in Best Buy, I saw a large number of people crowding over a stack of orange looking cases. Upon further inspection, my head thought. “Oh WOW! $50 FOR AN IPAD!! SCOOORREE!! GET ONE GIRL! GET ONE NOW!!”

So imagine my surprise when I went back home excited and proud of myself for spotting things quickly. And actually looked at my purchase.

That moment, I knew I effed up.

So now I was stuck with a kindle I didn’t ask for. yay me. Ever since then, as a punishment for my reckless behavior. I’ve been forcing myself to use it. Which is why we are here today. *sigh Let me *sigh review this Kindle Fire 7 *sigh thing. *sigh

Review:

I hate it. Absolutely hate it. This has to be one of the worst tablets out there. Heck, I’m not even sure if tablet is the right way to describe this.

Why?

• Slow
• Lags
• Weak Battery Life
• Weird System/Software
• Books don’t show up
• Not Compatible with 99% of other things
• An Ad
• Not user friendly
• Hard to customize

How does a kindle, whose main job in life, is to be used for books. FAIL to SHOW said books! I spend 20 minutes just jumping around in my kindle looking for the ebook I just downloaded.  wha?

Not to mention, I plug in this device to charge all night. Only to use it for a few hours and discover its gone down to 30%, why? You’re sucking up all this electricity and then YoU tell mE you die a quick death?! Wha..?

Ugh! Don’t even get me started on the ads. People, I didn’t buy a kindle. I bought an ad. That’s what happened y’all. No wonder nothing works, its an ad! Duh! How stupid of me. The lock screen is an ad of Amazon’s products that I can never remove. Why? It’s MY kindle. Shouldn’t I put whatever the hell I want to put in it. And the homescreen is an ad. Swipe up and down. Left and right. All the pages ARE ads. I spent hours trying to fix this but all I got was less ads. Every page has ads. There are ads here, ads there, ads EVERYWHERE! Apparently,  I should host a giveway and the winner gets one of them ADS!

This sucks. I don’t have the energy anymore to finish this post. I’m out.

 

What did you think of this post, do you own a similar product? Or do you think I should try something else? Lets chat, don’t worry, I don’t bite. ^^

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