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My young daughter has been using our iPad for the past couple of years and was able to learn to navigate to and around her favorite apps. Based on the ads and reviews of the Kindle Fire HD, we thought it would be an ideal gift for her sixth birthday, since we could control what she could access using Kindle FreeTime. Herein is where the problem lies. First, FreeTIme allows access to apps, books, and videos, but not to music (?) To get around this, we needed to download a third-party music player app into FreeTime, but the app was buggy. In addition to being unstable, it did not show album artwork, which would've made it impossible for a kid in the beginning stages of reading to find what they were looking for (this issue was true for 3 different music apps we tried). The second big issue we ran into was movies. As Apple users, our entire library of digital movies is on iTunes, which uses a format for movies incompatible with Kindle. So aside from investing in a format conversion program and converting them all over to a Kindle acceptable format, our iTunes movies were useless. Lastly, and this is less a criticism of Kindle than it is of Netflix, is the lack of "Netflix for Kids" as part of the Netflix app. As stated previously, our daughter was familiar with the iPad version of Netflix in which she could choose the Netflix for Kids option when she opened the app. She understood it as "her" Netflix. The Netflix app on Android/Kindle has no such option and, as such, if my daughter used it in FreeTime, she faced the option of wading through shows that we had previously watched, such as Breaking Bad, to find a cartoon. I wrote this review to help other parents who may be contemplating buying this device for the same reasons I did to let them know of these major faults. I have no doubt the Kindle Fire HD is a wonderful tablet that offers great value outside of the situation I described here. As far as being ready-made for the kiddos, it's a work in progress. We'll stick with the iPad for the time being.