We got a new kindle fire HD for Christmas. I've owned a kindle now for two or three years, another Christmas gift. That one, the page-numbering is a mystery. It gives you a location...a bunch of numbers...that make no sense whatsoever...and a percentage, 18% (read)...and this new one, the first story I read on it, it had something like "two minutes left"...and I'm thinking....whud? This thing going to start smoking? Like the tape recorder on Mission Impossible? So...you start reading faster...your mission, Jim...finish the story before the words evaporate. But now...story I'm on, a long one...it says "page 145 of 834"...and it will say that for three four page-turnings. This one, too, you can flip it around one way or another and the text flips with it...plus you can "turn a page" with a finger. But say you want to adjust on the couch? You're getting the ole butt-signals? Time to move, buddy, little circulation here, please. And your finger happens to touch the edge of the screen...and the pages go whipping past? Yikes! This kindle fire is nice too cause you can highlight in colors...using a stylus. I'd have to turn on the old kindle to remember how to highlight there. There's some other bells & whistles, like you can go on-line with this new one. I was concerned about battery life with the first one...since so many of my tools for work use batteries...and they do not last. But the old kindle is still going strong.