The new Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8 features a new cover that puts it miles a head of the Nook Color, with a rustic leather case that gives readers the feel of reading an actual book. The case opens like a book and folds flat for single-handed reading, and costs nearly $100 more than the original Kindle Fire HD 8.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition Features Hands-Free Reading
In addition to coming with a beautiful case, the new version of the Kindle Fire has landscape and portrait orientation, so readers can enjoy a hands-free reading experience. It also comes with one year’s worth of Kindle Unlimited. This service usually costs Kindle users $10 a month, which is about $120 per year, and gives readers access to over a million e-books and thousands of audiobooks.
Amazon E-Readers Help Keep You Awake and Alert
The 8″ color display gives users the best reading experience available, and it’s thin and light for easy carrying. The latest update for the tablets included a new feature called Blue Shade, which allows readers to adjust the hues and colors on their screen to filter blue light in or out. This causes a difference in alertness, as blue encourages the secretion of melatonin in the brain. Melatonin decreases mental alertness as if signaling the body that it is time to rest. Blue Shade gives readers the ability to control just how much blue light they are reading with. Amazon is the only company with a line of tablets that have this feature built-in.
The Original Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8 and Kindle Fire HD 10 Are Great Alternatives
If buyers aren’t really interested in the extra perks, Amazon’s other e-readers still provide with a great reading experience. All of Amazon’s tablets in the Kindle Fire HD line feature a 1.5GHz quad-core processor. The Kindle Fire HD 8 (non-Reader’s Edition) and Kindle Fire HD 10 come in an 8GB and 16GB capacity. The Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition only comes in an 8GB version. All tablets feature excellent speed-reading tools, different fonts, multi-color highlights and a font that is unique to the Kindle.
None of these features are in devices like the Nook Color, as Barnes and Noble still struggles to follow behind Amazon. E-Readers have been steadily popular throughout the years, and it seems like Amazon is still at the lead of the flank in this industry.
