I think the main advice I want to give, because I didn't realize it for a long time, is that if you have a tablet and you want to just settle down and really read the way you'd read a book--without a lot of unbalanced weight in one hand, without any issues of subtle eyestrain, and without having to scramble for the window seat with the outlet on the Amtrak train or generally charge at every opportunity... yeah, if you can afford it is well worth the extra money to have an e-Ink Kindle too. The general characteristics of an e-Ink Kindle are very different from that of a smartphone, tablet, or laptop, and much better suited to the specialized job of "ludic" (enjoyable, immersive) reading of books.Independent George wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:49 pm...If you plan to download & watch movies on a flight? Get a tablet. If you plan to read for hours, including outdoors by the pool? Get a Kindle. If you're going to do both? Then get either a tablet, or both...
For years I kept thinking it was a waste of money to buy an (e-Ink) Kindle when my spiffy and well-liked $600 Samsung tablet could do the same job. It wasn't.
Here's another way to phrase it. Although the e-Ink Kindles contain foreign-language dictionaries, their Translate feature--Bing Translate--is so much worse than Google Translate that it's a bad joke. So I read all my Spanish learning material on my tablet, because I can use Google Translate. But I never use it to read anything else.