You can subscribe to many of the

WordPress blogs in the Kindle store

which is what I had thought you might be doing.

You do pay for those (this one is ninety-nine cents a month, for example), and it’s a way to support the author (I’m very grateful to my subscribers).

However, you aren’t able to comment directly from there.

Yes, Send to Kindle is great!

I will check for firmware update when I get home…

Also, I just found out about the “Send to Kindle” plug-in for chrome. That is huge!

It’s easy enough to read blogs on, say, the Kindle Paperwhite. The Paperwhite is the most comfortable reading experience I’ve had, including reading on paper. You can read them on the “Mindle”, for that matter (that’s the least expensive Kindle).

Commenting, though, is going to be more difficult. Short comments are doable, but you don’t have a keyboard and can’t attach one. For that reason, the Kindle Keyboard might be a better bet (but even there, lengthy comments may be a challenge). Another important thing to note is that you’ll have to go from the Kindle-packaged blog to the website to actually make the comment.

A tablet with Bluetooth (like the Kindle Fire HD), lets you use a full-sized keyboard, if you think you want that.

If all I wanted to do is what you describe, I’d probably go with the

Kindle Keyboard wi-fi only

although Amazon appears to be out of the wi-fi only version right now. That moves you up to the 3G version at $139 in the USA at time of writing:

Kindle Keyboard with wi-fi and 3G

At that point, for $60 more you can get a Kindle Fire HD (but you would pay separately for a Bluetooth keyboard, if you wanted that). That might be worth it if you also visit other websites, watch movies, use apps (like Flipboard, which is how I get to the blogs I read, usually) and games, read magazines…and don’t already carry another tablet or other mobile device that can do that:

Kindle Fire HD 7″

I’m always reluctant to say that anything is the best, because people are so different, but I hope that helps.

If the Play store ever recognizes the Kindle Fire, I’ll certainly trumpet it.

As to why…well, Google and Amazon are clearly competitors, and they’ve been on opposite sides of some things. Amazon has allowed competitors to have apps in its Appstore (Netflix, for example, which is a competitor to Amazon’s Instant Video), but not everybody does that. Maybe I’ll try some apps and let you know…

Google Maps would generally be downloaded from Google Play. Google has chosen not to recognize the Kindle Fire as a device for download from Google Play. I put it that way because it appears not to be an actual question of whether or not apps from there would work on the device, since you can get some of them from other sources.

For example, there is

http://www.1mobile.com/

I checked that one for Google Maps, and it didn’t have it…which didn’t surprise me. My guess is that Google will keep close tabs on that one.

You can use the web-based version of Google Maps, which will give you directions (but not, I think, turn by turn). I get to it through the Maxthon browser on my Fire.

You can also get other map apps through the Amazon Appstore:

Kindle Fire compatible map apps at Amazon

Not every app is compatible with every Kindle Fire model…you do want to check that before you get the app.

What problem are you having? In Magic Jack, I tap the Contacts button. If I am on the Magic Jack list (as opposed to the Android list…I have both), I long press (hold my finger or stylus on it for about a second). When I do, I get a choice to “Edit”, and tapping that gives me a choice to “Delete”.

Hm…that’s deleting the contact. Are you trying to delete one number for a specific contact?