Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I currently have a Kindle Fire 8.9. I love it. It has an easy to use intuitive interface, adequate storage, and decent internet access. When I saw that a 10” screen was coming out, I was excited because I play a lot of games and I thought the bigger screen would be a bonus in that respect. I also assumed that the interface would be essentially the same- easy to use and intuitive. I was wrong. This is one of the clunkiest, clumsiest, hardest to use interfaces in my experience, and I go back before the age of icons. The carousel has been replaced with a page of icons that defaults as the home page when you turn it on. There are a lot of icons on there that I never use (firefly, etc.) I don’t like this. I don’t want to have to hunt for the last book I was reading or the last game I was playing. When you go to your various libraries, you are inundated with ‘recommendations’ and have to click the library button in the upper right corner to get to your stuff. There is no tab for the internet in the tabs at the top of the home screen; to access the internet you have to hunt through the page of icons and find it there. I tried four times to download items from my cloud account ( including two reformats ) to this device with no success. The last time I managed to start a download for Wordfall (a fairly small file) and saw that it was going to take over 40 minutes to download. I downloaded it onto my kindle 8.9 in less than 2, using the same internet connection. The overall feeling I got from this tablet is that it’s not so much a tablet as it is a ‘Buy All Things Amazon’ device. Everything I wanted to do that wasn’t Amazon related was difficult and frustrating. I’ve been a loyal Amazon customer for years and will continue to be so. I rave about my current Kindle to everyone who will listen. However, as much as I like Amazon I really don’t care to feel corralled toward their website every time I open my tablet. The advertising and selling were just too egregious. I’m sending it back.