I've got the Kindle Fire, it's great for what it does. I got mine at Christmas 2011, so I've had it for 8 plus months.

Email, web, some cute apps all work great. it's smaller and more portable than my wifes IPad. I carry mine more often than my laptop now.

battery lasts all day; 6 hours of continuous use including wireless for me. readig books, the web, PDF's are all very easy.

With Intermittent use, where i check my email a few times a day, and wander some web sites at lunch, the battery lasts 3 days.

My downsides:

my i wish it had an SD card port. i would really like to swap book or music libraries without plugging into a PC.

It does only have 8 gig, and 6 gig of tyhat you can use; so you can't carry tons of music or videos.

unless you root it, you are limited to specific apps, but the collection of applicaitons is enourmous. finding the right app, if you don't knwo the name, is a pain, because the app store presentation is a top 100 kind of thing...so if the right app isn't in the top 100, you need to search and dig.

when i read the SSC forums, neitehr the built in Silk browser, or another browser free fromt eh appstore , the Maxthon browser, do not put vertical/horizontal scroll bars on the {code} blocks, so you cannot see all the code.