{"id":3315,"date":"2014-11-20T20:59:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T04:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:37:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:37:19","slug":"kindle-fire-hd-7-is-119-139-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/kindle-fire-hd-7-is-119-139-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindle Fire HD 7 is $119-139 right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought the Kid a 16GB Kindle Fire HD 7<\/a> for $139 (the 8GB is $119). It’s a limited time offer — the Fire was $159 when I added it to my cart two week ago — and with the sudden price drop, I didn’t want to wait.<\/p>\n

So the Kid is getting his Christmas present a month early, and he’s super excited. To be honest, I’m getting a little excited myself. It’s great to see him so enthused. (Games he’s dying for: Five Nights at Freddy’s 2<\/a> [$2.99]; Stupid Zombies 2<\/a> [free]; SAS: Zombie Assault 3<\/a> [free]; Zombies Ate My Friends<\/a> [free];<\/p>\n

I have to play them all now to check out whether they’re appropriate or not. Ah, the hardship that is my life \ud83d\ude1b )<\/p>\n

I plan on using Kindle FreeTime (which comes pre-installed) to force him to do his half hour of daily reading before he can play any of the games of movies.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

About Kindle FreeTime: blog posts of interest —
How to Setup a Kindle Fire for Kids with Kindle FreeTime — http:\/\/www.lovemyfire.com\/kindle-freetime.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How-To Geek: How to Turn Your Kindle Fire Into a Totally Kid-Friendly Tablet — http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/178303\/how-to-turn-your-kindle-fire-into-a-totally-kid-friendly-tablet-with-freetime\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kindle FreeTime: Parental controls and kid-friendly content — http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/The-Culture\/Family\/2014\/0108\/Kindle-FreeTime-Parental-controls-and-kid-friendly-content<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Amazon Kindle Freetime review — http:\/\/gadgets.ndtv.com\/apps\/reviews\/amazon-kindle-freetime-review-469809<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

Basically, FreeTime comes with the Kindle and you can add different profiles for multiple kids on a single device. You can decide what your kid is allowed to use and how long they can use it for. (Kindle FreeTime Unlimited is a different thing that you pay for, so don’t be confused.)<\/p>\n

The Kid is too old for some of the controls, but at the same time I don’t trust him not to go app crazy and download a bunch of stuff or in-app purchase a bunch of stuff that will appear on my card. He gets a little too into his games, and sometimes he doesn’t think about consequences or much of anything else when he wants to play something. Plus I have a lot of content I don’t want him to have access to, yet he’s too young to have his own Amazon account.<\/p>\n

So I’ll be sharing some of my apps, games, and books with him, and I won’t have to worry that he’s spending his college fund on some silly game or other. Very nice deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought the Kid a 16GB Kindle Fire HD 7 for $139 (the 8GB is $119). It’s a limited time offer — the Fire was $159 when I added it to my cart two week ago — and with the sudden price drop, I didn’t want to wait. So the Kid is getting his Christmas…<\/p>\n Read More<\/span> Kindle Fire HD 7 is $119-139 right now<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[208,360,435],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-article","tag-christmas-present","tag-great-deal","tag-kindle-fire-hd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-Rt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3730,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/ereading-kindles-amazon\/","url_meta":{"origin":3315,"position":0},"title":"Ereading; Kindles; Amazon","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"October 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"There's talk that the purchase of dedicated ereaders is down, and as the owner of several kindles, I can see why. 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