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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I hear that often. But I don't seem to hear justifications for that claim.
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Some of it is mentioned in the article, worth reading. I'm sure it's somewhat user preference. I've used Windows, Android (Google, Samsung, Huawei, Asus), and now Ipad tablets. Of the three, the new Ipad Mini is the fastest (CPU-wise), nicest screen in terms of color rendering, nicest reading aspect ratio (4:3), nice size at just about 8 inches, intuitive UI, and choice of apps in the app store. It's just a beautiful multi-purpose tablet for both reading, and doing other things online. With reading apps like Mapleread and Kybook 3 around, I strongly prefer the Mini over the other tablets I've used, I think the reviewer nailed it.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Android tablets do all of that as well and tend to include expandable storage.
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In my case, I keep my Calibre library in a cloud drive which I can access on the Mini. So I don't need much storage in any tablet I use. The mini has 256GB, so I'm not expecting to need more than that, it has 4x the storage of the last Android tablet I used. My thinking is not that Ipad does anything Android doesn't do, it just does it better and faster. :-)
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I suppose only iOS lets you buy Apple books, but that only matters if Apple's book experience is absolutely the best available, which it is not.
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Wouldn't know. I don't buy Apple books due to the encryption situation.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Also, from memory, you can't buy books directly from Amazon's apps and have to use a clunky workaround of signing in to Amazon via Safari, buy the books and then read them in the app. How is that good?
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This part is true, although it's a non-issue for me as I don't buy books that way (on my devices). I browse the Kindle store on a PC, tag and buy the books I want, then push them to my devices in bulk from the PC. Including that I push a copy to Kindle for PC, so I can import into Calibre. I do this step all at once, so it's more efficient for me than buying books on devices.