In hindsight, I probably should have included the amount of storage in what disappointed people (although not in the question about what Amazon could change on the current model Kindle Fire).

You can use Google Docs on your Fire…and without sideloading anything. I do it in

Maxthon Mobile Web Browser

I’m not sure the ability to edit in the Cloud Drive is precisely a Fire issue, although it would make things easier on that device.

Oh, yes, that’s quite possible. It would likely have a seven-inch screen, putting it in much more direct competition with the Fire.

You can compare the three vehicles…it’s just that, as you suggest, it’s not a matter of picking one over the other for all circumstances. That’s what makes me laugh about the idea of a “Kindle killer” or “iPad killer”. There is room for a lot of different gadgets…

For those of you who don’t know, the acronym is

PEBCAK

That’s a way that IT folks try to be nice to the user when they discover that what happened when they were called to help was that the user was doing something wrong. It’s short for Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. By explaining that it was a “PEBCAK” issue, they don’t have to tell the person they did something wrong. We used to say “failure of the carbon-based unit” (that’s the person…the computer is silicon-based) as well. The one I would never, ever use is not polite. It goes like this:

“I need you to write down an ID code for me, so the next person knows what happened. First, write down

ID

Now, your code is ten and “T” as in Thomas. So, write that down…

ID10T”

I have heard people say that the problem was “ID Ten T”, but you can see that writing it down suggests something impolite (and culturally insensitve as well).

I’m glad you love your Fire!

Not every question will apply to every person. I was interested on the question that involved the iPad and the Kindle Fire about relative degrees of satisfaction…and if you only own a Kindle Fire, you can’t tell me whether you are more satisfied with that or with your iPad.

I do polls pretty often: I’m sure you’ll find questions that work for you. You always add a comment, just as you did here.

Yes, I’ve heard that Amazon is working on a content organization system for the Fire. I’m guessing we see it in the next few months.

Amazon estimates you can put 6,000 books on a Kindle Fire. That 8GB is all of the memory on the Fire. There is 5.36GB of “Internal Storage” available. That’s also where you keep your downloaded books, music, magazines, personal documents, and videos. Apps have their own 1.17GB of storage.

Oh, no, they wouldn’t really have a mini pad, would they?

A Vespa is a wonderful way to get around town, but I am not going to take the kids (if I had any) to school, get a month’s worth of groceries in one trip, etc.

The Camry would fit many people’s budget and does most everything, but it isn’t like you can throw a load of compost in the trunk or take to the red carpet at the Oscars.

You get the idea.

The issue with the Fire is that people trust Amazon, so they go for this great entry level tablet from them because of their trust in them. The problem lies in that most of the users aren’t ready for said entry-level android tablet when they don’t even know the password for their wifi or if they even have wifi.

What’s that acronym? Problem exists between….

Yes louder volume would be nice. 3G capability would be nice. (Pay as you go, preferably).

What would make the Fire perfect would be the ability to organize one’s books and personal documents into folders and collections. 8 GB could hold a LOT of books! I hope this is something the engineers are working on.