Kindle users?

read the reviews on the realbook for kindle, it'll tell you if anyone is experiencing any problems.

 

I can't speak for the lower end ones. But the Kindle Fires SUCK, in my opinion. They are so proprietary they make Apple seem open source! My brother got my mom one for Christmas. Despite running an Android OS, you are grossly limited as to what you can do. It infuriates me when I use it. I consider it pretty worthless considering I can get a *real* Android tablet and simply install the Kindle app to do all the reading my silly heart desires!

Oh and on top of that, she had to send it back once for a crapped out screen. They sent her a replacement free of charge, however.

 

Kindle is regarded in the tech press as a dead man walking, in favor of reader apps in small general-purpose tablets, Android or otherwise.

Kindle isn't a tool, it's a marketing device.

Does it give a better display? I don't know, don't care. What I see on my 7" generic tablet is good enough.

What needs the real work is the plethora of competing, incompatible and largely obsolete library delivery/reader systems which are getting worse, not better.

The atrocious and unclear-on-the-concept 3M Cloud Library is a new example, as is the outdated Adobe Digital Editions that only works for Windows and Apple and has not yet been ported to the 21st Century world of mobile devices.

 

I like my kindle. it's great for reading and watching movies, playing app games as well as some other useful stuff. the browser is not bad. But I don't think it would work well for what you are looking for. You need a bigger screen.

 

If those super cheap HP tablets are still available, I would look into those. They are easily "hackable" so you can put a different OS on it, and it is really malleable to do whatever you want. It would probably be good for the purposes of sheet music.

My only Kindle experiences are with the Kindle Touch and the regular Kindle, and solely for reading books / newspapers. They are great for that stuff, but I can't comment elsewhere.

 

I recommend against it. The interface on the Fire is terrible, and as mentioned, they work very hard to prevent people from using apps that are actually useful. Microsoft just dropped the prices on their tablets.

As a reader, the original Kindle is completely great. It's made me hate books, and gotten me reading again. As anything else, avoid all Amazon products like the plague.

 

I like my Nook.

 

Bite the bullet and get an iPad. Sooo many great music apps, and you can get the Kindle app and it works better than the Kindle. Once you have an iPad, you can get metronomes, ForScore, iRealbook, just for starters and the whole music thing is on one device.

 

I installed vanilla Android 4.1 on my friends Kindle Fire, and he loves it. Works and looks the same as Android 4.1 on my smartphone, very smooth an nice.

 

found several for real book 6, many of them saying that it'll be a page for the music followed by a page of copyright notice. every single page is like that.

another said the search doesn't work correctly but you can link from the table of contents

they make an 8.9 inch

 

The e-ink Kindles are great for reading. The Fire is weak. There are some amazing things for iPad when it comes to sheet music.

 

Kindle's make for great e-readers (the e-ink ones that is). Not familiar with the tablet like Fires.