What is a tablet useful for?

[Deirdre784]

I've only had my iPad since last summer (didn't think I needed one with a desktop pc and laptop at home and working on a computer all day too), but decided I didn't want to get left behind!

But I now use it all the time, it's really useful to take to archives / records centres etc, make notes in the cloud, check your tree, take photos etc. I also take it to work, to read or do a spot of FH at lunchtime, when the office internet is really slow.

I do find copying a pain, and didn't realise it would take dictation (will try that), but I'm really pleased with it.

[Redroger]

think Deidre has it right. Doing this now on tablet (Linx 8")running windows 10convenient to use and not too big

[snooziflooze]

I have a cheap android tablet, but it's pretty crap and annoys me intensely.  Might be swapping it for a windows 10 version in the near future....

I've also got a Kindle (one of the original ones not the newer version) and I'm impressed.  Very well made and built to last.  If the newer versions are as good, I might go for one of those instead.

[Deirdre784]

I love my kindle (again never wanted one but inherited my mum's - she didn't like the idea but the huge print option sadly became necessary in her last few years) especially if i just want to read, otherwise i read on the ipad (you can download your Amazon books to any number of devices and they will know where you are!!).   

[smudwhisk]

A friend of mine has an 10" Linx with Windows 8 which she's had for the last year.  Very pleased with it.  Partly bought on my recommendation, she'd look into it and asked my view.  If I didn't already have a 10" netbook that doesn't get used much, I'd probably buy a 10" Link, albeit the Win8 version which is still about seems better value and spec than the newer one.

[mike175]

OH has an original Kindle - it's brilliant but there is something about a proper book  I guess there's no hope for me . . .

I too have a cheap Android tablet . . . somewhere. Can't remember when I last used it. If I eventually give in and replace it, I think it will have to be Windows 10 so it will 'sync' with my other Windows devices.

Mike

[jaybelnz]

I agree Mike, something about a proper book!  But I have to say that after my DIL sneaked in and put the FREE Kindle App on my iPad, I've never been back to the library, and never bought another book.

Amazon is great! "Books" are either free or very cheap! Every genre you could wish for!

You can adjust the size/colour of the print to suit, and choose single page view or double page view, and a few other things! Worth giving it a try, as the app. is a free download!  Doesn't take long to get used to!

[mike175]

Jeanne, I do have the kindle app on my laptop and I agree the number of free books is amazing. I'm wrestling with the complete works of Dickens at present, which should last me a year or three if I stay the course. But I do think the real Kindle (the original one, anyway) is in a different league with its non-reflective screen which really is the nearest I've seen to ink on paper. Much easier on the eyes, even when reading over her shoulder 

But I still do 90% of my reading in paperback form . . .

Mike.

[groom]

I must admit I do love my kindle and updated from the original to the Kindle Voyage a year ago. I like the fact that I can read it in sunlight or, as it has a back light, can see it just as easily in a dim light. I like being able to download a sample of a book as soon as someone recommends it as well. The biggest advantage though, is that I can carry a whole library of over 200 books in my handbag when I go away.