[lphnull]

I wouldn't recommend any of the current generation kindles. I've been gifted every single Kindle there is, and I have to say that $50 is not worth it unless you really just want a throwaway tablet as an alarm clock or something. It's cheap for the following reasons:

1) you're stuck inside the shitty Amazon App store ecosystem. Lots of developers hate that Amazon created their own separate app store, so expect no major apps on the download section of your kindle's app store. Especially not Google apps like YouTube. Just the lowest quality of low effort apps made by foreign developers. 2) screen and speaker quality sucks now compared to previous kindles. The UI and user experience has just always been bad because you don't get anything resembling stock Android OS. You have to use whatever weird skin that Amazon decided to tack on to their weird and limited version of Android. 3) the tablet's price is subsided by ads. It's cheap because you have to see a different ad every time you unlock the Kindle screen.

The kindle's speakers used to sound amazing on the old HD, I forgot what it's called but it was the best tablet Amazon ever made. Every Kindle ever since has been significantly worse.

Id you want a tablet, find some $80-$100 Chinese tablet from somewhere that can at least doesn't blast you with ads. It's worth it.