[katiesue]

We have two tablets at our house. Maddie has an ipad and I have a kindle fire. She really doesn't use her ipad much except to play games. She uses her phone mostly. It is super handy though when you loose either the cable remote or the roku remote because you can use the ipad apps instead.

I love my kindle fire but I mostly use it to watch movies at the gym. I was using it also hooked up to the TV to stream movies. I do a little net surfing with it but it's slowwwwwwww. It can also be a roku remote (yea yea we loose the darn remotes all the time). If you want to run apps check what's available. Kindles do NOT run all android apps. I can't use my bank app for instance.

The surface kind of interested me because it looked to me like a good compromise from a laptop. I was thinking of it when my laptop dies but then I read a review. Apparently only the more costly versions run full versions of Microsoft office and it has the same issue as the kindle with only certain apps working on it.

For just reading I use my old school kindle. I like the screen much better for reading.