I’ve got a fire HD-10 and it does the job, I guess, but it’s so slow as to make scrolling a basic PDF tedious to the point of being unusable. What I’m looking for is something that I can read my kindle library on, access google drive and dropbox in order to store and retrieve pdfs, epubs etc to read them on as well, a decent sized screen but nothing huge, the ability to run youtube because that’s how I get some of my recipes, and a relatively snappy response (it doesn’t have to be the most amazing ever, just has to react to basic things like opening or scrolling a document quickly enough to not be frustrating)
Whenever I make my suggestion, people question it, but I really enjoy reading PDFs on my Android tablet in Xodo and ReadEra applications.
Is this the perfect solution? No, but it gets the job done, doesn’t cost arm and leg and offers the expansion of the experience beyond any dedicated e-reader. I owned a few Android tablets, 7’‘, 8’‘, now 10’’ and I never felt the need to switch to something different.
when you say “android tablet” is there a specific brand or model you recommend?
I’m quite fond of cheap ones, featuring reasonable specs. By that, I mean 4Gb of RAM or more, good screen resolution, its size (small bezel is welcome) and as clean Android as possible.
Samsung is usually suffocated by its bloatware, to the point that its specs are very inefficient. I had very good experience with LG, Lenovo, currently am using some Chinese tablet rebranded as “LOCAL BRAND” (patriotic flag waving in the background).
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I have a Lenovo Tab M9 that I quite like. It cost me about $120 new.