best (cheap) tablet for reading books
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Books? Kindle 
Books? Kindle
Not open format though. Usually locked to Amazon. Item will be a gift to use to a student doing biological science so she won't have to lug 1270 page books around.
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Barnes and Noble Nook, it's an E-Reader that can be had for dirt cheap (If you can find it for sale, maybe second hand) and will read most formats.
For the record though, if you find an E-Book in a certain format, and you need it in another, you can just convert it very easily?
For the record though, if you find an E-Book in a certain format, and you need it in another, you can just convert it very easily?
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Kindle + Calibre = read everything.
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How about £50 for 7 inch Windows 8.1 tablet?
http://blog.gsmarena.com/7-inch-windows-8-1-tablet-costs-65-packs-intel-bay-trail-processor/
$65 = £40.38 + £8.07 VAT = £48.45
http://blog.gsmarena.com/7-inch-windows-8-1-tablet-costs-65-packs-intel-bay-trail-processor/
$65 = £40.38 + £8.07 VAT = £48.45
For reading I would always recommend an actual e-reader.
EXCEPT if it's going to be a lot of textbooks. All the e-readers I've tried handle PDF files very poorly, and in general are just awful for reading large textbooks on. For that I'd resort to a proper tablet, so if you want something cheap a Nexus 7 or a HUDL2 would be even cheaper.
They're nowhere near as nice to read text on, but for textbooks e-readers are basically unusable in a lot of cases. You'll also have the advantage of not having to worry about file types, as there will be various apps which can handle pretty much anything.
EXCEPT if it's going to be a lot of textbooks. All the e-readers I've tried handle PDF files very poorly, and in general are just awful for reading large textbooks on. For that I'd resort to a proper tablet, so if you want something cheap a Nexus 7 or a HUDL2 would be even cheaper.
They're nowhere near as nice to read text on, but for textbooks e-readers are basically unusable in a lot of cases. You'll also have the advantage of not having to worry about file types, as there will be various apps which can handle pretty much anything.
If that's the case then the Nexus 7/Tesco Hudl will be better for the job, I had a classmate who used a Kindle and the diagrams were hard to see as it was only black and white. Format support should be better as well due to the amount of apps avaliable.