Fire HD 8 tablet (newest model), 8” HD Display, 4GB memory, 64GB, responsive and vibrant, designed for portable entertainment, Black

I love my new Kindle! It's just the right size and not too heavy. It doesn't stay charged as long as my old one did and takes up to 3 hours to charge but as long as I'm on top of that, it serves me well.

Wonderful tablet, beautiful I just had it a few hours but so far like I say it's wonderful, Update just the right size. Any bigger and I couldn't hold it up to read on it. At 75 years old I'm not as strong as I used to be, But this is just the right size for me. The 7" Tablet Was a bit to small, But I think the 10" would have been too big. I have a Screen protector on it. My granddaughter put it on the minute I got it In the mail. She wanted to make sure it was protected. And reading on it is just wonderful I've adjusted the spelling size and the color and I can't ask for anything better I don't think. Very happy I would buy again, Very happy with my purchase. Amazon kindles are just wonderful inventions And the fire gets you so much more than just a book, in fact it gives you a whole library.

Great quality and works as described

Took longer to arrive than originally stated. Upgrade from my current-original Kindle Fire-bigger/harder to hold as it is larger but I did not want any of the smaller readers out there .A cover with a hand hold is a good idea. I primarily use the kindle app. It is a nice tablet. Good sound, picture/screen is good. Haven't tried the camera.. Easy to use but I wish it had come with written directions on how to navigate it. Once charged it gives you verbal directions to set it up and then you're on your own to figure it out.

Leaving my original review below. Originally liked this a lot, but within 24 hours realized (1) it was extremely slow and glitchy, (2) the screensaver ads and the $15 bribe to remove them is garbage - especially considering that this device is only worthwhile if you get if for really cheap, (3) the browser it comes with is horrible and it doesn't allow you to download Google chrome, (4) the battery life is ridiculous, and it seems to struggle to charge with any cords other than the one it came with. I used it a few times as a screen for Jackbox games - for anyone who doesn't know what that means it's only responsibility was staying on while we use our cell phones to play a game. It couldn't even do that. When I submitted my return request, Amazon offered me $11 to keep it. I considered it, but it got on my nerves so much I decided to send it back anyway.I got another Android device that was about $70 and am sad that I sent that one back before knowing how poorly this one functions._________________________________________________Incredible device. After discovering Amazon Luna, I wanted a device that I could game on & didn’t want it to be the ones I use for work so I bought a couple tablets to test out. This one was the winner and by a landslide. I was hesitant because all the reviews said the tablet was good for “light gaming” and I intended to play more graphically detailed games like Skyrim and Fallout. Let me tell you that the performance of those games on this tablet exceeded that of my MacBook, HP laptop, annd any Android tablet I tried. So impressive.Teeny complaint or really an FYI for people considering this for hardcore gaming (which is likely no one lol) - if you want to buy a controller that attaches to the device, it gets a little wonky bc the volume buttons are located where the external controller attaches. I made it work, and it’s 10x lighter and easier to use than a steam deck, but just be mindful of that when you look for a controller. I also bought the Luna controller and hated its guts lol but that’s also an option.

This thing is awesome!! Perfect size, spectactular clarity. I use it mostly for reading and it is small enough that I don't need a stand and can hold it comfortably. Much better than the Kindle.

I like it?I owned a 9th Gen Amazon Fire 7 tablet which I traded in on this new Fire 8. The Fire 7 was a huge disappointment, and I found during the few times I used it I would just get frustrated, so it was more often just left at home, and finally tossed in a drawer and forgotten until I found out I could trade it in.However, I really didn’t want to keep taking my larger iPad Air on trips. Not only because of the size, but because they aren’t cheap and I was always worried about it getting damaged or stolen. So, I thought I would give the Fire tablet family one more chance. I wanted something smaller, much cheaper, and good enough that I wouldn’t want to toss it across the room with frustration.So, when Prime Days rolled around I decided to give this Fire tablet a chance. For under $60 with the trade in discount and the money from the old Fire 7 it certainly checked the box for ‘cheaper’ than my iPad Air (we are talking 1/10th the price). But, for the big issue - would it be ‘good enough’?Yes it is. The old Fire 7 was slow, glitchy, had terrible resolution, would just die sometimes, didn’t have the guts to easily retrieve emails, let alone stream videos, the internet browser was useless, and the apps were so slow, I just gave up downloading them, even simple games would lock up the tablet. And let’s not talk about battery life or charging times - both dismal on the Fire 7.The new Fire 8 is plenty fast, I took it on a short trip and found that I could easily get, answer, and organize my emails. I found the apps I needed for streaming - Paramount, Peacock, Disney, Hulu, HBO, PBS and of course, Prime, and the resolution, streaming and download times are just fine. I like that it is compatible with Alexa, I can easily check my security cameras while on the road with a screen that is good enough to see some detail, regulate the HVAC system, turn on and off lights, everything I use Alexa for while at home. Of course it is highly integrated into the Amazon ecosystem, but for me, that is OK. I have Amazon Prime, Kindle Unlimited (but there is a very good Libby app available as well), Amazon Music Unlimited and more, which all perform flawlessly on this tablet.The resolution, while certainly not iPad standard, is plenty good for watching movies and TV series. I don’t like watching movies on my phone, it is just too small, but the slightly larger screen size seems to make sense. Same with emails - they download quickly and I like the larger format for answering them. I really don't like to read on the phone, but this Fire tablet seems to be a great size for reading, and has a decent blue light filter. The few word games I like to play on the road are decent, and unlike with the previous Fire tablet, don’t crash. But the biggest surprise is the Silk Browser, it is quite decent, plenty fast, and again, I like the larger screen over surfing the internet on my phone.Battery life is really good, along with charging time. And I like that it has a USB C charging port, so it matches the rest of my electronics, so fewer cords.A few little dings. The sound is just so-so. I rarely will use the speakers, as I normally use earbuds (which paired seamlessly), so it isn’t that big of a concern for me. 64GB storage is a bit small, but since you can expand that by using a MicroSD card, again, not a big issue. The screen is prone to fingerprinting, but a quality screen protector, which I would have purchased anyway, solved that.So, from someone who is very much an ‘Apple Girl’ I was pleasantly surprised with this small tablet. Great for traveling, fits into my small crossbody purse, is pretty light, and has done everything I wanted it to do. It will not get tossed into a drawer and forgotten like my previous Fire tablet, but will become a travel buddy. Is it as good as an iPad? Of course not. Is it ‘good enough’, and do I ‘like it’? The answer to both is, ‘surprisingly yes’.

(Update: Be aware that this device turns itself on randomly. This has happened many times. At first I believed the button was getting pushed because the device was in my bag. But no, this has happened many times when the device was at home for days being charged, after I verified it was off initially, where it was in a position where nothing could have activated the power button. So I do not know why this happens but it is an ongoing issue.)I had an old Kindle Fire that was from 2012 or before that, which lasted 13 years but finally died a few months ago. My prior experience with Kindle and ebooks and impression of Kindles in general is based on that device. I bought this Fire tablet because I needed a replacement for my old Kindle. Since e-readers that can only read books and have a low amount of storage are really expensive, I bought this because it was cheaper and I thought it would have more functionality.As of now, I have had this Fire tablet in my possession for 6 days, and this review is based on that. I purchased the 64-GB, no-ads version. The “no-ads” thing seems to work because I have had zero problems with ads. If you buy this, I strongly recommend the “no-ads” version. You will not receive any user manual with the device, and you will have to rely on Internet searches to troubleshoot problems if they occur. On this device, after the initial setup before installing anything additional, it said about 52 GB of space was available.Be aware that you cannot use Google Play or any apps that come from there. All apps you install to this, you have to install it from the Amazon Appstore in order for it to work. I am pretty sure that apps that did not come from the Appstore will not work. But the Appstore has versions of most common streaming apps you might use to stream TV and movies, as well as the Libby library app, which also seemed OK.You cannot uninstall pre-installed apps. On the Home screen, these apps are cluttering the place up, but you can get them out of your way by dragging one of them on top of another one that you don’t want, which will create a folder of all the apps you don’t want, and you can put them all in there to clear up space on your Home screen. You can also disable Alexa during the initial setup phase. You can also go into the settings and get rid of the annoying “recommendations bar” or whatever it is that is on the home screen. You can remove the search bar from the lock screen, but you cannot remove it from the home screen. Anytime you are typing anything, the AI “writing assist” was absolutely driving me nuts because it was causing almost all the typing errors because it was making assumptions about what I was typing, which were wrong. It is possible to get rid of this by going into Settings>Device options>Keyboard & language, and in there you can turn off a lot of really annoying stuff like that AI writing assist and writing recommendations. So it’s good you can turn this off. If you buy this, do this ASAP when you are first setting it up to save your sanity.I had 3 objectives when I bought this: 1. Read ebooks using the Kindle app, 2. Stream TV/movies using apps (while using my phone as a hotspot for an Internet connection) while out of the house, and 3. Listen to my music files that I already own while out of the house.(Rating 5/5) Streaming TV/movies using apps while using my phone as a hotspot:I never did that before, but this was actually the easiest part of all this. I have had zero problems streaming TV/movies using the Disney+, Hulu, and Netflix apps on this device. Streaming in HD is fine, but I’m sure this depends on how fast your data connection is, and you need to make sure that your phone is capable of functioning as a hotspot and that you’ve got enough data for your use as a hotspot. It’s not hard to set up the hotspot. I also connected Bluetooth headphones to it, and those worked fine as well. So this part was good.(Rating 5/5) Listening to my music files that I already own:It’s pretty easy, but you can’t do much with your own music files without installing a music player app. I installed the Musicolet app, which does not do anything on the Internet and is a simple music app that lets you create playlists on your Fire tablet for your own music files that you have on the device. This was really good. If you download a music player, be careful because some of them don’t have the ability to create playlists. This just took the time to copy my music files to the device and set up the playlists, and it was very simple, and seems to work well. So this part was good.(Rating 1.5/5) The worst part: The Kindle app.For reference info: My old Kindle was trouble-free. It had no real Internet capabilities other than delivering ebooks, but that was fine at the time. I read books on it and it was fine, and I listened to my music files and those were fine. In the 13 years that I used that device, I never had any glitches whatsoever.However, the Kindle app on this Fire HD 8 tablet has got a lot of problems—way more problems than should have existed in 6 days. 11+ hours of my time were wasted in 6 days because of technical glitches that were specific to ebooks and the Kindle app. I will try to talk about some of these problems so that you can make an informed decision.Warning: Books you deleted from your Fire tablet previously may randomly reappear as though you didn’t delete them. I don’t know what causes this. You will have to delete them again. And they may reappear again later even if you deleted them multiple times. There were some cases of books I had deleted from my Amazon content library also reappearing.Warning: Ebooks you own that didn’t come from Amazon: A large percentage of them probably won’t work. Some will work on your device and some won’t. I warn you right now that there is absolutely NO guarantee of being able to use any books you own that didn’t come from Amazon. It seems random… Even if you have a trilogy or series of several related books that came from the same source that you bought at the same time, sometimes one of them will work and others won’t, even if the file type is supposed to be compatible with the Fire tablet. So if you own 500 books that didn’t come from Amazon, it is very likely you will not be happy with this device because there is a high chance of most of your books not working on it. This is real, make sure that you consider this before buying.Warning: You cannot back up your Amazon book files to your computer anymore. It used to be possible to do that on my old Kindle, but it is impossible to do that with this device. Even if you download all your ebooks that you purchased directly from Amazon to the Fire tablet, if you hook it up to your computer, there are zero files under “Books” in the Fire tablet. It looks empty. If you look at “view hidden files” it is still empty. So Amazon has removed all possibility of backing up your books and they have made us 100% dependent upon them to obtain the books that we supposedly already own. This is not good because of the many glitches that force us to have to deal with Amazon tech support for literally hours to get books we purchased from Amazon that are supposed to be our property. The “deliver via USB” option that used to exist has also been removed so the only way you can deliver books to the device is wirelessly via the Internet.Warning: Even if you purchase an ebook from Amazon and download it to your Fire tablet and verify that it works, and you think it's fine, tomorrow you may get a DRM error and it may be unusable, and you will have to contact an Amazon customer service tech support person under Product Support to fix this glitch. (The dreaded error I am talking about is this: "Invalid item: This item is protected with DRM and cannot be read on your Fire. Please remove the item from your device and download it again or purchase a copy from the Kindle store.”) This has happened over and over again and I suspect it will continue to happen over and over again. This wasted 11+ hrs of my time within the first 6 days I owned this device. I had to spend more than 3 hours talking to 2 different tech support people to resolve this issue. First time, after setting up my device, I got these DRM errors on most of my books (the ones I purchased from Amazon) that I had previously verified as working the day before. The tech rep made me do a factory reset, but honestly I don’t know that the factory reset helped anything and it wasted a huge amount of time because I had to re-set up everything again. After the factory reset, he had to manually resend the books to the device because the “make changes” thing where you deliver the books yourself from the content library was grayed out and didn’t work. This worked for most of the books, but some of them it didn’t work. I had to permanently delete those books from the content library and rebuy them, and the tech representative issued a refund for the cost I had to pay. Then, 2 days after that, I got 4 DRM errors again today, specifically for books I had purchased from Amazon that had supposedly been fixed by the previous tech rep, and one of them was one of the ones that I had to delete and rebuy. I had to talk to tech support again, and they manually resent it again. Given that these errors have happened soooo many times in 6 days, I suspect this is an ongoing problem. So if you do buy this, if you are planning to read a certain book, do not leave the house without checking that it works. Because it may not. You may have one of these awful random DRM errors that prevents you from reading your own property. So… I hate this. In retrospect, I kind of wish I had not bought this. I am hoping these errors will not continue but I think it’s very likely that they will. Also: I had 23 books from Amazon that I had to get 100% replaced and fixed. What if I had 300 books that had to be manually resent? Anyway you can see how this is a major issue. These recurring DRM errors for books I purchased from Amazon are a huge problem. If I had known about this in advance, I think that I would have looked elsewhere to replace my old Kindle. But I also think that returning the device and getting a new one probably isn’t going to help. I suspect this happens on all of these devices because their system is set up in a very glitched way. And I think that doing multiple factory resets (which wastes even more of your time having to re-set up everything again) probably doesn't fix it either.I hope this review helps people to understand whether this will work for them. And I really hope I will not have any more of those DRM errors. I am pretty much at the end of my patience with that. 11 hours of time wasted in 6 days is way too much. This is totally unacceptable.