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)

  • Maharashtra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Alien Nathan EdwardOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      when you say “android tablet” is there a specific brand or model you recommend?

      • Maharashtra@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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).

        • Alien Nathan EdwardOPEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          “LOCAL BRAND” (patriotic flag waving in the background)

          HAIL HAIL HAIL TO THE PLACE

          HOME OF THE PEOPLE AND THE THING

          WHERE EVERYTHING IS GOOD AND EVERYONE IS NICE

          AND THE SEASON IS ALWAYS SPRING

          I LOVE BEING FROM THE PLACE

          WHERE THE GRASS IS GREEN AND THE SUN IS WARM

          IF THE PLACE WASN’T THE BEST PLACE TO BE FROM

          I WOULD’VE PICKED SOMEWHERE ELSE TO BE BORN

  • robolemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    There’s a company called Boox that makes android-based eink tablets. I haven’t used one but a friend of mine has one and he loves it for ebooks and pdfs.

    https://www.boox.com/

    Edit: oops, missed the part about YouTube. Definitely don’t want eink for that. I’ll downvote myself!