Kindle Fire Available for Pre-Order at Amazon, available Nov. 15. |
Electronics and gadgets are often tops on a tween wishlist, but not all electronic gifts for tweens are good choices. Some are fun, some are faddish, and some are great educational tools, but shhh! Don't tell your tween!
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Ereaders For Tweens: Newest Kindle Choices for Tweens and Teens
Kindle has just rolled out a whole slew of new Kindles, well in time for the 2011 holiday season, and providing many great options for the parent of tweens to select from. The most basic Kindle is $79, and already available, with the Kindle Touch with special offers priced at $99. Traditional Kindle is still available, but now at a reduced special offers price of $99, with the 3g version of the Kindle Touch priced at $149 (special offers version).
The Kindle Fire is an exciting ereader for a tween, or tablet for a tween, however you want to consider it. A media centered tablet type ereader, with touchscreen interactivity, this is one of the more inexpensive tablet computer products for a tween, with the benefit of accomodating apps, movie and video viewing, music, and ereading. Don't forget web-browsing! This should be a hot product for those who can't quite afford an iPad for their tween, but whose tweens really want that tablet for Christmas. You may want one for yourself, as well! I will be updating with some more comparisons, but this is a really exciting selection, for my purposes as a parent, and educator, and one which has a lot of potential for my tweens and teens, as well as for younger children.