9. Videos

Watching video on your Kindle Fire is a great experience. The screen is bright, the size is just right, and the Kindle Fire HD can play back HD video so it looks super crisp. The Kindle Fire is very portable; you never have to sit in a doctor’s office again without anything to do (or walk for hours on the treadmill staring at the wall).

Renting and purchasing video

Amazon’s digital video offers come in three basic groups: Prime Instant Videos, rentals, and videos for purchase. Rental and purchased videos can be downloaded to your Fire and stored in your Videos library. Because they are saved to your device, you can watch downloaded videos at any time without an Internet connection. ...

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