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[Modern Times]

I always was the guy who did not want to give up my paper books but once I started reading books on the kindle app for my android phone I have never gone back!! The reading experience is great!

Yes I read books on the kindle app on my Windows phone. Nice and convenient. But a tablet - no. My phone is always with me, a tablet is not. As I said above, I do have a tablet but it sits and gathers dust. I've had a bit of a play around with it, but that is all. At home, my full fat desktop PC is totally brilliant, out and about it is the phone. No need for a tablet in my life.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

I am not confused, Albert.
For anything I do a simple desktop or notebook is lot more useful and easier to use. For reading I prefer paper books and in any case I have a Kindle, equally better to read than a tablet.
To have s clear perspective of what you need and what is the use for you of anything proposed by the market is the opposite to be confused.

Fern

If you don't have a tablet, it is not at all obvious you can judge it. Almost everyone I know who does not own one says similar things to you, but they change their mind after experiencing one.

True story called the doctor & the iPad 4

As to paper books, they are a dying breed.

Nothing compares to a real paper book when it comes to reading....

Albert

I always was the guy who did not want to give up my paper books but once I started reading books on the kindle app for my android phone I have never gone back!! The reading experience is great!

And Chess Tiger for Ipad is one of my FAVORITE computer chess programs!

Count me in

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

I am not confused, Albert.
For anything I do a simple desktop or notebook is lot more useful and easier to use. For reading I prefer paper books and in any case I have a Kindle, equally better to read than a tablet.
To have s clear perspective of what you need and what is the use for you of anything proposed by the market is the opposite to be confused.

Fern

If you don't have a tablet, it is not at all obvious you can judge it. Almost everyone I know who does not own one says similar things to you, but they change their mind after experiencing one.

True story called the doctor & the iPad 4

As to paper books, they are a dying breed.

Nothing compares to a real paper book when it comes to reading....

Albert

And nothing compares to riding a horse, yet....

Could be the case

[fern]

I know tablets. Same as notebooks, at last, but lot more poor.
Easier to carry, yes, but that is not enough for me. And Books are not dying and even if it was so I cannot care less. Probably I will die before books die.
Not because you love those contrivances means everyone else that does not is "confused" or an ignorant that talks without knowing.

Fern

[Albert Silver]

I know tablets. Same as notebooks, at last, but lot more poor.

Fern

Tablets are nothing like notebooks.

[fern]

Albert:
I just use these electronics machines to write books, columns, playing chess and internet, nothing else.
I scarcely go out of my home.
So, for what a tablet?
If you convince me that, given those conditions, I win something with them, I will got this same afternoon to get one.

Fern

[Modern Times]

At home, I either use a notebook if I am sitting on the sofa, or I'll sit at my desk with the desktop PC. A tablet has no use at home for me. Pointless.

[Albert Silver]

Albert:
I just use these electronics machines to write books, columns, playing chess and internet, nothing else.
I scarcely go out of my home.
So, for what a tablet?
If you convince me that, given those conditions, I win something with them, I will got this same afternoon to get one.

Fern

Fernando,

I am not trying to sell you one, and you are absolutely welcome to ignore their existence. I had many of the same preconceptions you have posted here, and have read comments like these by others as well. Frankly, my tablet barely ever leaves my home, and I do not even leave it connected to my home WiFi all the time as it uses up the battery faster.

I only bought one at first to read ebooks, and to better understand this technology that has changed our world. I am a geek, and understood that the only way to really understand the phenomenon is to participate in it.

I have now owned a tablet for about two and a half years, and will say that I gradually came to love it once I had understood its strengths and limitations. To compare it to a laptop is to completely misunderstand its use and purpose. This is a common misunderstanding because it does run software like any computer of course.

If you want to write documents, forget it. If you want to do serious work on it for desktop activities, forget it. If you want to browse the internet, play chess, watch videos, and a variety of applications or games, then you are starting to understand it. The comfort level it brings to these aspects is enormous, and you quickly realize that laptops may do these things, but the tablet does them better.

In fact, even reading is a great comfort simply because the issue of needing a lamp does not exist. Yes, a classic Kindle can be better in the sun, but I do not read much in the sun, I read mostly at home and at night. I set the brightness to the absolute minimum, and have zero issues and it does not tire my eyes. You can easily and instantly change the size of the text, invert the black and white for nighttime reading, and of course, just click on any word, in any language, and get an instant dictionary definition. Like me, you probably read in more than one language, so it is not crazy to need to look up a word. I have used dictionaries all my life, but this is amazing. You never hesitate to look one up, since it is a click away.

When I want to BUY a book, I click on Amazon, browse the book I want, and in seconds I can read it. If I am not sure I want the book, I download a sample. There is never ever a question of what books the store has available, and there is never a question of stock.

Blitz chess? The touchscreen experience of it is a joy. Speed maniacs with the mouse will disagree, and that is fine. But it is very very comfortable.

And so on.

Those are my personal impressions, though I can provide other small examples. For example, I enjoy cooking. A favorite website is called AllRecipes.com. They have an app for the tablet, so I use it, bring up the recipe, and display it on the tablet in the kitchen while I prepare it. This weekend there was a big martial arts competition on cable TV. I had an app with the pairings and the results opened while my friends and I watched it. It is the accumulation of the little things that give it so much value. In my opinion.

[michiguel]

I am not confused, Albert.
For anything I do a simple desktop or notebook is lot more useful and easier to use. For reading I prefer paper books and in any case I have a Kindle, equally better to read than a tablet.
To have s clear perspective of what you need and what is the use for you of anything proposed by the market is the opposite to be confused.

Fern

If you don't have a tablet, it is not at all obvious you can judge it.

Which means that the people who bought a tablet the first time, they had no idea why they did

Miguel

Almost everyone I know who does not own one says similar things to you, but they change their mind after experiencing one.

As to paper books, they are a dying breed.

Albert

[Albert Silver]

I am not confused, Albert.
For anything I do a simple desktop or notebook is lot more useful and easier to use. For reading I prefer paper books and in any case I have a Kindle, equally better to read than a tablet.
To have s clear perspective of what you need and what is the use for you of anything proposed by the market is the opposite to be confused.

Fern

If you don't have a tablet, it is not at all obvious you can judge it.

Which means that the people who bought a tablet the first time, they had no idea why they did

Miguel

And you are right.