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This is probably a waste of time but after this thread died out I went ahead and bought a Kindle Touch 3G Dec. 3rd.

Up until yesterday I have been stuffing it with all my favorite authors from Clive Cussler to Edger Rice Burroughs.

It has over 40 different books, even a book on automatic rifle teardowns. Not the best for illustrations though.

It never strains my eyes, never hiccupped and was very easy to use. I found the Cloud excellent to put up on my puter and thus everything I bought was also readable on the puter scree though that does after a while make my eyes hurt.

My 17 year old son lives in a foster home, he occasionally gets down to the public library but has very little money to buy the books he really wants like good old fashioned sc-fi. Turns out he has the same taste as I have and most of the books in the Touch were to his liking.

Here we have Christmas coming and shortly after that will be his birthday, so I decided to give him my Kindle Touch 3G and I would get another Touch, but Walmart was out of the Kindle Touch 3G, so I did something stupid and bought the Kindle Fire.

That was yesterday afternoon, I immediately found that unless you get it registered its basically useless. I took it home where my daughter has her puter on a wi-fi router along with the wifes puter, min is still on a dialup.

I spent 4 hours trying to get authenticated to no avail, I tried connecting a USB to my puter and doing a registration to no avail, I could not download anything from the Cloud to the Fire until it was registered by the Fire itself, I did enter the serial number on the Amazon site and registered it with Amazon, apparently it requires a software update, it was estimated to be 181MGB and 12 hours download on my puter but the Fire just would not connected to the wi-fi in the house.

I live well away from town and I have no idea how you connect at any wi-fi hotspot, so I was really pissed after all this and I said the hell with it, I did try checking some Kindle Forums and yes quite a few Fires are having this same problem.

I took the Fire back to Walmart last night and got my money back. Unless Amazon gets its act together and offers one with 3G I will never ever consider this device. I may not have the most modern router but I feel this is just being too dependent upon wi-fi and it leaves many people like me frustrated because we are rural and not the urban WI-Fi addictonadons.

My gut feeling was right from the very start and I was lured by the sirens of tech but I escaped without injury, those of you that have the Fire and have no problems I am not against you, its just not going to work for some people.

I may now get another Kindle Touch 3G, it works great as long as I don’t have to download any audio books as they require wi-fi, the 3G download is usually less than 20 seconds. Love that Kindle Touch, basic, easy to use, easy on the eyes.

I still want a tablet but only if its with 3G, maybe a Galaxy or the Xoom.