For those of you not wanting to part ways because of a few dollar program, getjar still has tapatalk for free. They actually reimburse the devs for every download (unlike amazon) as a form of advertisement to get you to visit their site. I had heard about this company from Leo's All About Android. I'm assuming they are still legit. If not, feel free to post any corrections. This site just got too hard to manage using my phone through the browser, and with my cookies turned off, it kept popping up "this site uses tapatalk. Download from marketplace" all the time.
Hope this goes through okay. Still don't know what I'm doing or where everything is at, but that hasn't stopped me before.