yes Casi the pandigital takes the epub format it can not read the kindle format unless of course you have installed the kindle android app onto the pandigital. anytime you get any book from amazon you have to use your amazon account so you have to be logged into your amazon account that is what it is asking for , even though the book is free it will go through the transaction just like you are buying it but the price will be zero, they will also email you to your associated email and provide the "bill" copy. You can use a program like calibre to change the format from kindle to epub and use it that way. Many times barnes and noble have the same free books as amazon but they are already in epub format.

There sure are a lot to choose from these days. You might want to do a search for "kindle" or "e-readers" to see what's been posted. I got Harry a Kindle for Christmas last year. It must be easy to use because he's technically challenged, but once he learned to use it he doesn't put it down. I got him the one with both wi-fi and 3G. Now I'm not sure it was such a wonderful idea. He's read 65 books since April! That means he doesn't do much else. Amazon's website is great. They have a whole site of 99 cent books, free books, etc. They keep track of what you've read (so you don't repeat). You just click and a minute later it's on your reader. We got a nice gift card from my daughter for Christmas and then he got another one for Father's Day. That's pretty much kept him in books.

I think the question boils down to the Operating systems and in that aspect Android is here to stay and of course so is Apple. There are a multitude of various brands using the Android OS including the one on the Kindle fire but Amazon has altered it so it is much more exclusive to Amazon which narrows it's use over a regular Android tablet. I have several Android tablets and just ordered myself a new one for Christmas it is an 8" because I think the 10" are just too heavy for my arthritis sore hands to hold. Brands are just the names slapped on the outside of the tablet they are all pretty much the same if they are running Android just like our smartphones that are Android. This is my new toy VIZIO 8-Inch Tablet with WiFi - VTAB1008 it has a much higher resolution than others and does a lot of other stuff and it does have a camera on board too not that I will use that much and I could use it to control all of my home theater since it also has an IR remote feature built in. I love technology so I know this surely will not be my last buy! I do pass on my older ones to people that can use them. chisue my husband loves his Lookbook he is not in the least interested in any thing else! the one recommendation I give everyone looking at any of the android tablets do not get anything lower than version 2.3 you want Android 2.3, 3.0 and up NOT 2.2 or lower. If it does not say be sure you ask and find out for sure because they are trying to unload a lot of those older versions now at Christmas.

I currently have a Kindle touch. When it dies, I will absolutely get the Paperwhite. Sometimes when I read in bed, my lamp bothers DH so I have to use a clip on light and I sometimes have trouble with positioning it. The Paperwhite would let me read in bed without bothering DH. The battery lasts a very long time and I love the dictionary feature for looking up words instantly. With a book, I would have to get up, find the dictionary and look up the word (which I would not do) or I would write down the word and look it up later forgetting the context I hand seen it used. I love my Kindle and now I need to look at Calibre.