For my money, the Nook Tablet is a way better device for travelers. The Fire only has 6mb of storage built in. That is NOT very much. It is designed to be a cloud device, and is therefore dependent on a wifi connection. As a traveler, there are just too many times I'm either not near wifi, or the connection is not reliable. The Nook has more built in storage, and also supports a 32mb SD card (which the Fire does not). I'd rather just preload whatever music, books, magazines, movies, and tv shows I want, and watch at my leisure. And the 7inch form factor is PERFECT for travel...I've always found the iPad just a bit too large.

And while I'm at it...am I the only one that has paid the extortion to GoGo while in the air, and had a connection that was sloooooow as molasses? And when I call customer service, they say "oh, that flight was very full, there must have been a lot of people on GoGo at that time, that's why it was slow." WTH???? I do not care about their bandwidth issues...if they are going to knowingly sell me a slow connection, then charge me a discounted price!

The Nook will allow me the option of ignoring a crummy wifi connection if I so choose.