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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Re. display, I personally find BlackBerry PlayBook the best.
But this comes for a price: Battery duration.
I can make an entire day with it. But in standby the battery seems to drain faster than on most tablets.
Re. surfing the web: The browser on BlackBerry PlayBook is phantastic. Maybe the best I've seen on any of my tablets.
For some time, PlayBook had been my main reader. I've used the Kobo app intensively, plus the Zinio app. Zinio seems to have put some effort in this version. It's the online one I've found, that allows for bulk downloading. I've been able to download my hundreds of magazines within a few hours, which takes forever on other versions of Zinio.
I've even read Kindle and Nook books in their respective web versions.
In addition, I always found the OS of PlayBook spectacular.
But unfortunately, I'm using it less and less.
The lack of apps simply is frustrating. I'm a collector and enjoy the vast libraries in iOS and Android. You hardly can count the new apps, every single day. On PlayBook, days go by without a single new app. One could solve this by sideloading Android apps. This works flawlessly. But why sideload Android app? If I want to have Android, I can buy Nexus 7 for example.
Meaning: If you're fine with PlayBook "out of the box", I strongly can recommend it. But if you miss some apps, I wouldn't rely on getting them later.
From what you've mentioned so far, all of this shouldn't be a problem on PlayBook though.
P.S.: Re. transferring books from public libraries: I haven't checked intensively. But I don't think, you'll find a native app for that on PlayBook. But of course you can sideload any Android app, such as OverDrive for example.
And re. the sideloading of Android apps on PlayBook: Don't worry. It's extremely simple. You can download most Android apps on the PC. Then drag and drop with a simple PC program. You don't have to be an IT-specialist, to do so.
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OMGosh, thank you again so much for your detailed reply!
I'm definitely leaning towards the PB now. Question, how do you get apps on it? By downloading to PC and then loading them to PB? If so, that's fine, as long as it's easy and it works?! LOL So sounds like setup would be pretty basic for me, charge, likely update firmware, then download ebook reader app [seems like 'most' people recommend "BookReader"[?]. Besides reading and surfing [occasional mp3 or video], anything else for me would be gravy really.
Again I thank you so much for detailed advice!