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Need Help Choosing a Tablet/Ebook Reader

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cyberrico

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My head is spinning with all of my options for a new device.

I just bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 which I love. The screen is huge making it great for me to read books and watch movies on my daily commute and on my breaks and lunch at work.

Doing this has me into reading again after not doing so for many years. This immediately drew me to the Kindle Paperwhite. The screen is fantastic and the battery lasts a month. VERY attractive option for me. I could get this and still use my Note 3 for watching movies.

Then this lead me to the Kindle Fire. I thought, why not sacrifice some battery and be able to watch movies on a bigger screen? The question here is does the Fire support a wide variety of video formats and is the display hard on the eyes for reading on such a bright screen? It's not on the Note 3 but I thought I'd at least open the floor to comparison on how the display is for reading when comparing the Paperwhite to the Fire.

Then I thought, why get a fire when I can get a Nexus 7 (or some other Android tablet you might recommend) and be able to read, watch movies and have a full blown big Android device at the same time? Having this new device be an Android isn't that big of a deal, especially if the Kindle Fire is so much better as a media device. It seems the Kindle battery is better which is a plus.

Enlighten me!!! :)
 
Since no one has answered I will chime in with what I have decided on and what conclusions I have come to.

Bottom line: a 7" screen is small. A guy sitting next to me this morning on the BART train was watching a movie on a 7" tablet. It wasn't much of an improvement from my Galaxy Note 3. The guy across from me was watching a movie on a full size iPad. Man that was a big difference.

What I have decided to do is get a Kindle Paperwhite because the screen is amazing and the battery lasts a month. .....a month. I can read it in the dark, it's bigger than my Note and I can comfortably operate it with one hand.

A few months from now I will treat myself to a big screen Android tablet. Nothing jumps out at me right now but I haven't really been looking either. I expect to pay about $400 for it. I can't wait to see the looks on the old Asian women's faces when I watch True Blood on the big screen on the train LOL.
 
cyberrico said:
What I have decided to do is get a Kindle Paperwhite because the screen is amazing and the battery lasts a month. .....a month. I can read it in the dark, it's bigger than my Note and I can comfortably operate it with one hand.
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This is what I was about to recommend. If you want to read ebooks, the e-ink displays are unparalleled for comfort and battery life. You would only get a few hours' reading out of a kindle fire, forcing you to recharge if you were reading a novel. The reflections in the kindle fire's display make it unsuitable for ebook reading.

In my opinion they shouldn't even call it a kindle.
 
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