[tomsem]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

To be fair, my main use for reading on a tablet is comics that I sideload. Comics can be fairly large files, so for me 64GB is just not enough.

I have always wondered why that is: to the extent that the artwork can be vectorized, it would take much less space and would scale smoothly to any resolution.

When I said 'the Apple way of buying books', I meant: you can't buy books directly from Amazon's apps and have to use a workaround of signing in to Amazon via Safari, buy the books and then read them in the app. I believe other book seller apps work the same?

Trust me: it is completely easy (much too easy) to buy books with Safari, and it is a better experience than Kindle Store on a Kindle, Fire, or the Android app (where important details tend to be missing). I would use Safari instead of an in-app experience. Of course you can borrow Kindle Unliimited titles and get samples in-app.

And while I never use it, there is a Safari-iPad optimized storefront that you can save as an App icon on iOS home screen.

Again, maybe iPads are the best tablet to read on. But when I hear that claimed, I don't hear solid, concrete reasons this is so.

The 4:3 screen ratio is a good reason. I know there are Android tablets that are 4:3, but not sure if they have the same resolution as the iPad.

I recently got my first iPad mini, after a series of larger iPads. I never read much on the latter, though they are better for fixed layout content, sheet music, etc. But this thing is fantastic for reading. I’ve barely picked up my Kindle since getting it.

4:3 is better too, especially if you read landscape 2 column.

I have a Fire HD 8 but never use it. My favorite Fire tablet was the HD 6 but updates all but killed it (slow) and for some reason they did not continue with that form factor.

You said the reading apps for iOS are just way better than those on Android. That could be true. I haven't used them.

I used to think this was true but have no recent experience to confirm. Android seems to be very phone-centric and that has always been the priority for developers. The one thing I like about Android reading apps is they mostly support keyboard navigation, which is a good thing for tablets. On iOS, keyboard support is very spotty (except of course for typing things). You cannot even turn pages with arrow keys in the iOS Kindle app (Apple Books supports this).