[Radio]

I bought 2 Kindles, 1 for my wife and 1 for my son, for Christmas. I thought my son would like it and my wife would hate it...she's not very tech savvy. Turned out to be the opposite. My wife loves it, it's simple for her to use.

The wifi is basically for shopping the bookstore. She can search for books, get samples and buy later if she likes the sample. The ebooks are much much cheaper and you don't have them piling up. You're not limited to books you can get news paper subscriptions and magazines as well. It plays music, although we've never tried, she just uses it for reading. It has fantastic battery life, although hers is charged more often than the other because she has a cover with a built in LED light that's powered by the reader.

I don't have a tablet so I can't make a direct comparison but all in all if you're just going to read with it then I'd say the e-reader over the tablet. The readers are less expensive than the tablets, I paid ~$149 a piece for ours.