The book I read to research this post was Kindle Fire HDX For Dummies by Nancy C Muir which is a very good book which I bought from kindle. This book is designed to be a shortcut to learning the more complex features of the Fire HDX and the author says it took her a week to find all of them so I think this book is pretty good. This is the 3rd generation of the Kindle Fire and has an Amazon OS 3.0 operating system & a Silk browser for going on the internet. There is a 4G LTE version that lets you have an internet and data call contract but most people use a wireless network and the wireless version. There are 8.9 inch & 7 inch screen options. There is a much publicized mayday button that you may have seen on the TV adverts for this that lets you see an Amazon Advisor and works pretty much like a technical support call but but they can highlight buttons you need to press for a certain and some cases can gain access to your machine to sort out a particular problem. You can also move the video of the advisor around the screen if it gets in the way. Amazon sells a huge amount of online content like audio books, e-books, video, music & apps for this device. Much of this content is free and they give you 20 GB of cloud storage with Amazon free. An additional 20 GB of storage starts at $9.99 per year and goes up to 1,000 GB for $500 per year. I think the main selling point for this gadget is the huge amount of Amazon content it is compatible with and there is a feature called X-Ray that displays the lyrics to audio books as they are being read and displays information about music or video that is about to be played. Amazon owns the IMDB or Internet Movie Database website that this is compatible and is the biggest website of its type in the world. It comes with a calendar and office apps, can print stuff on a wireless printer and you can even display video on a compatible television. It comes with a micro USB lead so you can upload stuff via your computer. It is seen by many as a major competitor to the iPad Air. I did really enjoy this book which is very informative.
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