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Techcrunch just posted a great review of the Kindle Fire for all of you on the fence about it.

"I’ve been using a Kindle Fire for the past two weeks (that is, when my kids or wife haven’t absconded to another room with it). The device passes my first test: my family fights over it. The Fire is kid-tested, and mother-approved. Fruit Ninja is the new obsession with my young children. Even my two-year-old, who loves the iPad, is increasingly eyeing the Kindle Fire and scheming ways to get her Mom out of the room so she can play with it. My wife will have none of that, she’s reading Joan Didion’s latest book on the Fire. I sneak it away from the bedside table when everyone is asleep at night to watch old episodes of Arrested Development."

Well hello. I love my iPad but updating magazine subscriptions on it are a huge hassle (I refuse to have the New Yorker app open just so I can download the latest issue which prevents me from using the iPad for anything else) so I might just get one of these to read magazines from Kathmandu... Pricing to order one of these to KTM is at http://harilo.com/deal/429/kindle-fire