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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5733115" data-attributes="member: 8158">I've bought a Kindle Fire for myself and my mother. Mom's retiired and doesn't leave the house too much, so she can make good use of the wifi-oriented cloud services. I'll probably return mine. It's not very convenient to rely on a wifi-only cloud device when commuting, which is mainly when I'd be using it. I have a nice computer at home. Moreover, I attempted to connect to the wifi at work, and when iit notifies me that a login was required, a blank page opens. I tried the Marvel Digital Unlmited flash player, and it froze up almost immediately. No point in allowing Flash to run on your device if it's just to crash (which, of course, is Apple's point in the first place). My biggest complaint, however, is that there seems to be no accessibility option for magnifying the screen or increasing text size, and text size often quite unacceptably small. Other than that, it's great. Except that it's a thoroughly unattractive black rectangle. Still, for $199, what can one expect?Well, for $50 more, one can expect the Nook Tablet, with double the memory and a micro-SD slot. And, perhaps more important to me, a microphone to allow dictation apps to run. I ordered one of these as well, planning to return one or both with a couple weeks. When I went through checkout, I was offered a $10 discount if I became a B&N member. I figured, "why not". The discount was not applied. A ticket with Nook customer has produced amusing results. It would seem a simple matter to look up an order and see that a discount was not applied, and then apply credit to the card used. Amazon has no trouble doing so, but for Barnes & Noble this is a lofty proposition beyond their capabilities. They want my member ID number and one of three sets of data. I provide that. The next day they follow-up by asking for the SN of the tablet (which hasn't shipped yet) and credit card information. This is all predicated, they say, out of a desire to pretect my "security and privacy". I keep looking at that address, service[MENTION=6674266]Ba[/MENTION]rnesandnoble.com, to see if I'm getting scammed. No such luck!</blockquote>

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