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Originally Posted by Shades67
Loving so many of you have several tablets. I will need to add that to my sig. Not sure why I need so many but they sure are fun.  I actually do carry one to chemo appointments for hubby and I have the excuse I need it for his medical paper work. And then we go read FB while he is being juiced. Or I read a book and he snoozes. My first 7 inch kindle really saved me when he was in the hospital. It was my only link to the real world for almost a month. |
In my case I have several tablets because displaying eBooks isn't all they do.
My normal eBook viewing device is a generic 7" Android tablet from Yet Another Chinese Consumer Electronics Manufacturer. The first joined the family when computer retailer Micro Center opened a location in Brooklyn, a hop skip, and jump from me by subway, and offered a 7" Android tablet for $20 as a grand opening promotion. Sold! The primary use case was eBook viewer using
FBReader for Android, which gets the nod because it handles ePub, Mobi, and FB2 native, and PDF, CBR/CBZ and DjVu via plugins. I mostly don't care what format the book is in.
If all it did was view eBooks, it would be more than worth the price, and it was a cheap way to learn about Android. It did a lot more, especially after rooting.
The current device is an improved model from the same vendor that cost a whopping $30, with a 32GB microSD card added to store my library. Add an external keyboard, and I can largely dispense with a laptop when traveling.
Another joined the family when a friend passed along one he got but never really used, figuring I could make use of it. His was a novel entry with both LCD
and eInk screens, from a manufacturer ahead of its time that went belly up. But there's a support forum for it here on MR that pointed me to the stuff needed to root it and upgrade the early Android version it was released with, so I was able to make a useful device out of it.
The current time sink on the main tablet is running some old MSDOS programs on it with an Android port of DOSBox, an emulator intended to let you run old DOS games on something that isn't a DOS PC. I'm not using it for games, but games aren't the only DOS programs that will run.
So many tablets. So little time...
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Dennis