Amazon’s Fire tablets are Android-based tablets that run a wide variety of apps. Tablets are basically touchscreen computers that can be used for both “lean back” activities (like streaming movies or browsing social media) and “lean forward” tasks (like word processing or gaming). In contrast, Amazon’s Kindle devices are e-readers;–;black-and-white tablets tailored to the activity of reading e-books. Kindle devices can be used to purchase and borrow digital books and boast a much longer battery life,;but they don’t run traditional apps.