In My Mailbox

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren to spotlight what books we've received for the week.

No books this week :-(

BUT......

I got a Kindle Fire!!!

Sorry for the bad picture quality. I'll try to do a more in depth review of it once I've gotten to play with it a little longer.

I really love it so far. The picture quality is incredible! I'm uploading all my music onto the Kindle Cloud right now so I should be able to listen to that soon enough. It's very easy to download apps, order from Amazon, access your Kindle books.

A few things that I don't like so much.....

There is no way to organize your books into folders. For example: review/to-read/YA/read etc. A regular Kindle doesn't have this option either but I was hoping it would be remedied with the Fire. It seems like this would be an obvious and standard feature to me.

Note: I stand corrected here as to the regular Kindle. They do have a collections feature. The Fire doesn't though and I can't even fathom why not. Maybe it will be an update.

The other big thing for me is there are no compatible readers at the moment (such as Bluefire) so I can't read DRM protected Netgalley books on the FIre. This seems to be an Amazon issue as Bluefire has said that they did make an approved app but Amazon does not allow you to load it at this time.

So....a few minor peeves but at the price of $199 this is one amazing reader that allows you to read, watch movies, tweet, play games, email and more.

As I've said I'll do a more detailed review after I've used it for a month or so. I've had it a few days and I would definitely recommend it, especially if you don't want to pay for the pricier iPad.

What did you get in your mailbox?