My first ebooks, purchased through the Google ebookstore, read on a Samsung Galaxy Tab as I traveled for the holidays:
- Weekends at Bellevue, by Julie Holland
- Measuring the World, by Daniel Kehlmann
The Tab is just the right size to hold on one hand, the screen is bright but not tiring for my eyes, and the battery lasts for a whole day of reading. And the Tab also does all those useful Android things, which is especially convenient on WiFi-equipped planes (US Airways, please, please, put GoGo on the rest of your Airbus fleet). The Google Books app is simple and functional.
What's missing is a means of sharing books with family, as we do all the time with paper books.
2 comments:
It is easy to share books with family: just say, "Here take this tablet with a book loaded onto it. Give it back when you're done."
I have a Kindle and I love it, it's perfect for taking many books on holiday, as well as the odd science paper. They're also trying out a loan system, at least in the US (where I'm not, so I can't comment on how well it works).
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