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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 8:22 pm
by TheCatt
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.
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:23 pm
by TPRJones
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.
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 10:35 pm
by TheCatt
I do want the higher resolution of the new tablets. I've got an old iPad now and the text isnt quite sharp enough.
I was hoping to stick with the default reader of whatever product, thinking it'd be easier to stick with it over time.
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:49 pm
by GORDON
TheCatt wrote:Kindle - Can bring my own books, but only goes to nine inches.
Know how I know you're a size queen?
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 12:03 am
by TPRJones
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.
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?
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.
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:50 am
by TheCatt
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.
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:50 am
by TheCatt
GORDON wrote:TheCatt wrote:Kindle - Can bring my own books, but only goes to nine inches.
Know how I know you're a size queen?
And you wonder why I never called you back.
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 9:17 am
by TPRJones
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.
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 9:31 am
by TheCatt
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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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:30 am
by TheCatt
Well, the Kindle 8.9" went on sale for $250, which was too low for me to pass up. So I'll try that with Aldiko... assuming it's available.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:30 am
by thibodeaux
TheCatt wrote:A big one, 9+ inches
TWSS
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 6:00 pm
by TheCatt
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.