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The New Kindle Fire: The First Tablet to Get it Right and Offer Full Parental Controls?

The new Kindle Fire HD has broken the mold by being the only tablet to finally offer parental controls over what their kids access. While parents go to great lengths to control their child’s TV and PC usage, the tablets have managed to slip by the radar, allowing children unhindered access to the very same things that parents have kept them from on other devices. And at only $199, this kid-friendly tablet has quite an attractive pricetag.

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Amazon Introduces Kindle Owners Library – Borrow Instead of Buying Kindle Books

Amazon has rolled out a new free feature for Kindle users who are also Amazon Prime customers: the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library. Really it should be called the “Kindle Owner’s Borrowing Library”, so as not to confuse it with the feature where you can loan a Kindle book to a friend. In any event, with the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library you can borrow books to read on your Kindle – but a word to the wise: it only works on actual Kindles, not with any of the Kindle apps.