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You know this pain all-too-well, however. While your child might think the snazzy covers are the Kindle’s standout feature, they are so, so wrong – primarily, because they’ve never had to shell out for a new toy or gadget when the old one got spaghetti-Os in it. It’s the two-year no quibble warranty, which is the same as the one Amazon has offered with the Kindle Fire Kids editions for some time.īasically, if your kid sits on their Kindle, spills juice on it, or drops it into a volcano, Amazon will send you a new one, as part of the package price. The best thing about the Kindle Kids Edition doesn’t come in the box, and it’s not a tangible thing your child will appreciate. That’s no bad thing – the entry-level Kindle has benefited from the tech of older models filtering down over the years, and now has its own front light.
The Kindle Kids Edition is in essence Amazon’s standard Kindle model, with some child-focused features added. The parental control features can be accessed on the device or via the parents portal on Amazon, where you can change the age filter, set daily reading goals or add content you’ve purchased on your other Kindle devices or apps.What’s great about the Kindle Kids Edition
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The standard Kindle software is still there, and you can access it by entering your parental control PIN – so you can use it for your own reading when the kids are out or in bed. It disables the web browser and adds achievement badges, Word Wise (which automatically shows the meaning of more difficult words so you don’t have to look them up in the dictionary) and a search function that’s more forgiving of spelling mistakes. The software is a lightly tweaked version of the usual Kindle user interface. The missing titles are available as paid-for titles in the main Kindle store, which of course adds extra expense.
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Other series are incomplete, so there’s just one of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, four of the nine Demon Dinner Ladies titles and only one of the core Captain Underpants books.
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Our tester found that Percy Jackson, Lemony Snicket and Artemis Fowl were all absent, as were popular series such as How To Train Your Dragon. The UK edition’s selection is considerably smaller than the US one, so for example while Harry Potter is present and correct many big names aren’t. A kid who wants to devour the Artemis Fowl series, which isn’t here for UK users, won’t appreciate the Circus Train and The Clowns ebook, which is. There’s no point in having access to a thousand titles if they don’t include the ones your child wants to read. The Kindle for Kids sat next to the Amazon Kindle Oasis (Image credit: Future) Annoyingly, that's not supplied and instead the package just includes the USB cable.
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We’ve found that in real-life use the battery claims are accurate, although if you spend a lot of time browsing the store (or disable the Kids Edition software and use the web browser) the battery life will be significantly less.įrom flat, the battery charges to full in about 4 hours with a standard 5W charger.
Like the standard Kindle, the Kids Edition promises up to four weeks between charges based on around half an hour of reading per day double the daily reading time and you’ll get about two weeks. The display is clear and it’s easy to adjust the font settings, but it’s very slow to refresh and the lag when using the on-screen keyboard is “annoying”, according to our tweenage reviewer. It has a built-in, adjustable backlight that’ll inevitably be used for reading in bed.
The Kindle for Kids has a six-inch e-ink display delivering 167ppi with 16 shades of grey.
Storage space is a very respectable 8GB, which for ebooks if more than enough room. The device isn’t waterproof, so you might be glad of the included two-year accidental damage cover. It charges via micro-USB and the only physical control is the wake button: everything else is done via the touchscreen. The device itself is a tenth-generation 2019 Kindle in black plastic. That pink-for-the-girls approach didn’t go down very well with our resident twelve-year-old, who wanted to know why the standard cases couldn’t include neutral colors. US customers can choose from another two designs, outer space or colorful birds. The first thing you’ll notice about the Kindle Kids Edition is its case, which in the UK is either blue or pink.
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