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Originally Posted by Taj44

It is a tough decision! My friends have ipads and love them for traveling, showing pictures, surfing the net; but I don't think they do a lot of reading on them. I can sit down and read for hours, and I know I'd find the reflections on the screen annoying. Everyone is differnt. If you had the chance, maybe you could borrow someone's tablet and see how you like it.

I did that, Taj, but only for about 15 minutes. I loved it, especially the part that let me enlarge the font size. It seemed fine to me, but after hearing what others have said about eye strain I decided to ask for more opinions. Thanks to everyone here for your input!

Right now I'm leaning toward the Android internet tablet that's a Samsung Galaxy knock-off. It's cheap, compared to the others out there. It doesn't cost much more than an e-reader, and it seems to have more bang for less $$. I thought it could be an inexpensive way to stick my toes in the water for this type of device. I especially like that I can download reference photos for my art classes. Since I would be taking it along with me, there's a high probability that I'll drop it and break it at some point. I won't have a heart attack if that happens, but I might have a heart attack if I break one of the expensive models.

So now my next question is whether or not I can download the Barnes & Noble app to it and buy books from them? So much research to do!
(Notice how I brought this back to the Barnes & Noble topic? lol)