The eBook Reader Blog

While it’s hard to argue against the Fire HD 10 for $109 with the current sale for Amazon Prime members, there’s a new 10.1-inch Android tablet up for pre-order that is possibly the better overall deal. The Chuwi Hi9 Air tablet has a really nice screen and some impressive specs for the price. The pre-order […]

Newegg has a pretty good deal on an 8-inch Huawei MediaPad M3 Lite tablet for the next few days. The price is $149 with free shipping, but if you use coupon code EMCPTER77 at checkout it takes an extra $20 off the price. For $129 it’s a pretty big upgrade over the equivalent Fire HD […]

Amazon is bringing hands-free Alexa support to both the Fire HD 8 and Fire 7, a feature that was previously only available on the more expensive Fire HD 10. Alexa is a voice-activated assistant app that can be used for everything from getting weather and news updates, to playing music and audiobooks, controlling smart devices, […]

Apple announced a new 9.7-inch iPad today. It’s a bit faster than the previous version and it comes with a few new features but overall not a lot has changed. The main difference with the new model is the fact that it supports Apple Pencil, making it a viable option for tasks like sketching and […]

Now that the $50 off Kindle Paperwhite trade-in deal has ended, Amazon has started a new trade-in deal where you can get 25% off any current Fire tablet when trading in an old tablet. You can also use the value of the trade-in credit towards the purchase, so if you’ve got an old tablet laying […]

Lately I’ve been noticing the Kindle ebook app on my Fire HD 10 keeps resetting likes it’s starting from scratch, and all the downloaded ebooks disappear and have to be redownload again. There are a number of similar reports of problems with the Kindle app on the Fire HD 10 over at Amazon’s Fire Tablets […]

Yesterday I posted a review of the new Fire HD 10 so I figured I’d post a quick comparison between it and the Fire HD 8 today. Both tablets are the new models for 2017, officially 7th gen Fires, and both share most of the same features, but the HD 10 has a nicer higher-resolution […]

Review Date: October 2017 – Review unit purchased from Amazon Overview Amazon released the Fire HD 10 in October 2017. It’s the 2nd generation HD 10, and it features a higher resolution full HD 1080p display, yet it’s much cheaper than the previous version, a full $110 less for the model with the same storage […]