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Originally Posted by MGlitch
If I wanted a tablet I’d buy a tablet. I wanted an ereader so I bought an ereader. A tablet would not be better to use for me as I’ve no use for the bells and whistles it offers when I’ve got a smartphone that does everything I’d use the tablet for anyway.
I’d also avoid Android tablets, especially cheap ones, like the plague. I’ve had too many experiences both my own and family/friends to venture into that minefield again.
Give me one device which does something amazingly well rather than one device which does a lot of things passably well. And to be clear tablets to date have offered passable reading experiences for arguably the majority of reading media. They do PDF better but little else.
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You missed my point entirely. The hardware, the CPU, RAM, storage, etc. is faster in a $100 tablet vs. a $100 eReader. Part of why eReaders struggle so much with PDFs is that slow CPU with that small amount of RAM and cheap its literally an SD card stuck inside storage. I wasn't saying ereader should have apps and what not but for the money they should have better parts. Especially $300 ones like the Kindle Oasis (again a $100 tablet is faster). Besides the eInk screen the internals are usually bottom barrel ancient stuff. My Kobo would struggle to keep up with my typing which I used to think was the eInk screen but after getting a much faster Boox I realized it's was just the slow CPU.
And I meant software features like the ability to autocrop PDFs, get a book/PDF from my phone wirelessly etc.
As a side note my Amazon Fire 8 is pretty decent especially for the sub-$100 I paid.