I have a Kindle Fire. A big plus to me is the streaming video content that Amazon has available. Plus, since I am an Amazon Prime member, there is a lot of free movies and tv shows I can watch on my Fire.
Reading is good on it. My wife has read more than me with it, while I'm the only one who uses it to surf the web really. I will say that the web browser does have issues when trying to "click" on links some times not registering the finger press. But it's minor and not a huge issue.