I wouldn't. I bought my gf one for Christmas a couple years ago and one day it just booted up to some weird boot image on there that froze it up. It wasn't being updated or anything, and you couldn't just download a new img to put on there. Basically anything that a Kindle can do - any tablet can do except the Kindle is limited. Just get a nice tablet instead. You can still get books and what-not on there.