So I want a tablet. A big one, 9+ inches. Mostly I want it to read books, and sometimes surf the web and play stupid games.
iPad -expensive, but iBooks lets me bring my own books. I have lots of technical books that I've bought in PDF form. This works great on the iPad. But I really don't want to give more money to apple
Kindle - Can bring my own books, but only goes to nine inches. Most affordable of the bunch, but doesn't have access to the google play store and google ecosystem. My phone is a droid, so staying with google matters to me.
Nexus 10 - beautiful device, but you cannot bring your own books. WTF?! You are being out opened by APPLE, you fcking idiots.
In summary, I think I'm buying nothing.
Tablet
http://tech.woot.com/offers/asus-transformer-pad-10-1-16gb-tablet
I use my Android (Motorola Xoom) mostly as a reader. It's very good. I recommend an ap called Aldiko. It works fine for pdfs, although it's better with epub which it can invert colors on so that it's light text on a dark background, which is perfect for reading on a screen.
I use my Android (Motorola Xoom) mostly as a reader. It's very good. I recommend an ap called Aldiko. It works fine for pdfs, although it's better with epub which it can invert colors on so that it's light text on a dark background, which is perfect for reading on a screen.
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Eh, it's not hard to have multiple aps, you know. Google Books, Kindle for Android, Aldiko for your DRM-free stuff, whatever it is Barnes & Nobles uses ... why limit yourself?TheCatt wrote:I was hoping to stick with the default reader of whatever product, thinking it'd be easier to stick with it over time.
Shop for the device you like the hardware of. Finding the aps you need to access whatever books you have shouldn't be a problem these days.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
That's what I'm doing with Aldiko. I like it too much to be willing to use other aps. I do have to break the law to make it happen that way, but it's worth it.TheCatt wrote:The main reason I want to limit myself is because I want a single app, forever. I never want to switch again. I want a single place with all my books.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
TPRJones wrote:TheCatt wrote:The main reason I want to limit myself is because I want a single app, forever. I never want to switch again. I want a single place with all my books.
That's what I'm doing with Aldiko. I like it too much to be willing to use other aps. I do have to break the law to make it happen that way, but it's worth it.
OK, I'll check it out.
I assume there's no Apple version since it "replicates" iBooks? A cross-platform version would be killer for the time I still have my iPad.
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It's not me, it's someone else.
Got the Amazon Fire HD since it was on sale for $250.
The screen is AWESOME. I never thought the extra pixels mattered that much, but damn they do. They make it possible to actually read magazines/books/etc that have graphics with their natural layout. So many pixels, you can see the graphics without having to scroll around or deal with other limitations. I loaded up 50 books in the past day, and have scanned through a few. So far just using the default Amazon reader.
Snappier than the previous fire, web browsing works well.
I dont really care for the carosel interface, would like to have the original Android interface, bu tso far I dont have enough stuff on it that it matters.
Hard to believe how good stuff is for $250, imho.
The screen is AWESOME. I never thought the extra pixels mattered that much, but damn they do. They make it possible to actually read magazines/books/etc that have graphics with their natural layout. So many pixels, you can see the graphics without having to scroll around or deal with other limitations. I loaded up 50 books in the past day, and have scanned through a few. So far just using the default Amazon reader.
Snappier than the previous fire, web browsing works well.
I dont really care for the carosel interface, would like to have the original Android interface, bu tso far I dont have enough stuff on it that it matters.
Hard to believe how good stuff is for $250, imho.
It's not me, it's someone else.