[Kenzie]

I own a Kindle Fire HD7 as well as a Kindle 4 (non touch) The K4 is lightweight and can hold a decent amount of books, but it is purely an e-reader ( it has an experimental browser bit is painfully slow). If you read at night then I would suggest a Paperwhite as it has a backlight. The battery life is well over a week depending on how much you read/use the backlight. The Fire is pretty good for a tablet but very tied in to Amazon. Reading books on it is not too bad, heavier than a e-paper Kindle but has a lit screen and you can turn the screen black and text white if reading at night.