Wife and I just bought Kindle Fire any good?

[Jay]

Yes, the basic Kindle has no back light. A major gripe by the heavy users!

[DubFan]

Yes, the basic Kindle has no back light. A major gripe by the heavy users!

The original Kindle had no light for a reason. A) meant the e-ink looked more like printed text B) it was easier on the eyes when reading for long periods because it's not backlit and C) increases battery life to weeks instead of hours.
I've never heard complaints from Kindle owners.

[clipperjay]

Yes, the basic Kindle has no back light. A major gripe by the heavy users!

The original Kindle had no light for a reason. A) meant the e-ink looked more like printed text B) it was easier on the eyes when reading for long periods because it's not backlit and C) increases battery life to weeks instead of hours.
I've never heard complaints from Kindle owners.

Its a personal choice I'm guessing older generations who read usually have a book light where I read off phones that have already built in lights?
TBF its safer with a external light anyways hence we have a generation of gamers with bad eye sight and i-pod users with bad hearing?

[clipperjay]

Well it arrived and super little thing for the money!
Tested it and using Calibre converter for mobi files not the best program I've used but it might be too complicated to use for my father in law to convert and use mobi files.
Anyone have another program to suggest less features and one button click solutions software?

As stated you need an amazon account to access more features but it seems fine and the 8gb runs out fast when dumping larger files onto it.
The sound for such a small device is amazing took MP3 well!   
some mobi files have no covers but easily found in Google image then insert right into the file as a cover!
Still have to find a small Mpegl4 video file for testing still. Its his birthday tomorrow so trying to do the mods after he goes to bed at night Lool!

[dTEA]

Well it arrived and super little thing for the money!
Tested it and using Calibre converter for mobi files not the best program I've used but it might be too complicated to use for my father in law to convert and use mobi files.
Anyone have another program to suggest less features and one button click solutions software?

As stated you need an amazon account to access more features but it seems fine and the 8gb runs out fast when dumping larger files onto it.
The sound for such a small device is amazing took MP3 well!   
some mobi files have no covers but easily found in Google image then insert right into the file as a cover!
Still have to find a small Mpegl4 video file for testing still. Its his birthday tomorrow so trying to do the mods after he goes to bed at night Lool!

It is indeed cracking.  Got my mother one and the fact that the apps are there if they want to get into them is a bonus.  My mother has managed to drain her battery pretty quick though, so that might be the only issue.  I've got an original E-ink jobbie and it lasts months, not weeks. It gets read for around an hour a day too.  Best thing is to remember to turn them off completely not just standby...extended my mothers Fire by a fair amount...she thought just pushing the bottom button turned it completely off