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Originally Posted by darryl
I think, for many people, a tablet is probably a good choice. Many would probably be quite happy just using their phones.
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I think the tolerance to be able to use a tablet will highly depend on the screen quality. Old tablet with low resolution is no match for eink when it comes to sharpness of the text. Same goes for phones - the higher the resolution the better the text will look.
I always used to think that reading on a tablet is bad, because the only tablet I had to try on was my old Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (149 ppi). Finally got around and bought an upgrade today (Nexus7 32gb 2013, 323 ppi) - and the difference between them two is night and day. It looks better concerning text sharpness than our PW1. I will test out this weekend how extended periods of time reading on the tablet will work out.
Yes, of course there is limitations (battery life, readability in bright outdoors) that limit the usefulness of tablets or phones - and a dedicated eink reader got an advantage. One of the reasons I'm not giving up my Paperwhite any time soon.
For the price I couldn't resist either - Walmart had the tablet on clearance for $118 - that is even cheaper than I paid for each of the Paperwhites. Strange though, the 16gb version of the exact same Nexus7 was not on clearance priced at $223. I am not complaining, I think I got a good deal.
