Amazon’s Kindle was developed to give its customers better access to a familiar product. Books! In the beginning, Amazon’s original intent was to provide broad access to books for all of its consumers. By creating a variety of Kindle tablets, the company was able to deliver e-books to its customers and provide them with this access at all times.

Amazon’s first Kindle was developed strictly as a reading device in 2007. It was quite basic and allowed you to read books and download new books from the Amazon store. It didn’t have color or a wide variety of apps, but instead promoted the very basic concept of being able to read anywhere and have a huge library in a small device. Kindle content comes from Amazon’s vast library of electronic content. Users can purchase reading materials and wirelessly download them to their device instantly.

As the years went by, Amazon created a series of Kindle devices, each of which appealed to different users. Some simply want to read books, while others enjoy accessing news and current events, magazines, email, and the Internet.

Amazon’s Kindle competes with Barnes & Noble’s Nook and Apple’s iPad. Both the Nook and the Kindle started out as reading devices, but as more and more people turn to tablets and other laptops, reading devices are becoming a thing of the past as tablets that do it all they take over.

The latest in Amazon Kindle options, the Kindle Fire has color, access to the web, apps, games, news and magazines, and more. Not all readers enjoy this breakthrough. Many original Kindle users like the fact that it is strictly a reading device. As one man with an original Kindle put it: “I have the Kindle for reading, not for all the extras. I don’t like all the new features of the newer ones. It’s too annoying. I sit down to read, and before you know it, I’m checking and replying to email, reading news, and doing everything but read.“

Rather, many people enjoy the ability to take their entire library on the go while accessing the rest of their lives. With Amazon’s newest Kindle Fire, readers have access to everything a laptop has to offer, plus the ability to read.