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Thanks skinny

I've been thinking about getting myself a kindle for reading books.

Does anyone have experience of using one or maybe one of the entry level tablets that can double as an E-reader - Hudl etc?

Isn't that the kind of thing your kids / grand kids should be giving you for Christmas?!!! Better than slippers or underwear any day!!!

Yes, but probably a bit late for this year!

skinny,i have had my ASUS tablet for about a month and have to admit i am using it more these days than my main puter,i can do all the essential stuff and so much more.Have tried the E-Reader once just to show the wife how it works and was pleasantly suprised.

It will be one of the biggest selling presents this year and going forward,the sales of tablet will even take over the role of laptops for very day use.Both of those brands that you have suggested are nearly the same i would have thought,but the Hudl would be the one that i would part my wonga with.

Thanks Mega - I'll have a look over the holiday.

I don't really want to buy a high end tablet as I have enough current technology kit so may spend a bit more when the next generation becomes mainstream.

skinny,what i done is i went into a shop and actually held one and found the best one for me then went on Ebay and bought the same item for well over a 1/3 off for the same item.

Out of principle i wont buy a high end one made from Apple when another brand like Asus who make the Google Nexus can do basically the same thing for half price.

Maybe its because i am tight with my money :o)

Can anyone help???, using windows XP obviously old on my Pc. Of late had messages from various sites saying need to upgrade to a faster browser so downloaded CHROME and everything fine until I get to STOCKWATCH here on money am where I had to enable java , java 7 update 45, and this is working fine except I cant get the NEWS N articles to open out on the individual stocks, eg, today DXNS reported but when I click the N at side of epic nothing opens out, nothing happens.

I used to before get a message at top of page saying something like click if you trust this site but not getting that now.

Can anyone help please?

GF - you might find some help (no guarantee) here.

cheers Skinny, its a bit puzzling, well for me it is.

Skinny,

I was given a Kindle by my kids for an Xmas gift.

The major draw back for me was that I like to scan 1 or 2 pages at a time and then re-read more slowly.

(If I have an article longer than half a page to read, I prefer to print it out and read the hard copy.)

I found doing this difficult with the Kindle, but found it more comfortable and easier on larger flat back.

Probably down to age and I know that the Kindle is used by my Kids (in their 50s) for reading travelling to work and they are very happy with them.

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The idea is good, but it would be nice to have a screen like a book which you can open to 2 pages.

Skinny, I've bought myself a Barnes & Noble Nook HD which you can get from Argos - only a dual core processor but the screen res is superb. 16Gb version cost me £99, cover was £10 and I've stuck a 16 Gb micro SD card in for another tenner. It's a bit low for intensive stuff, but the kindle app is excellent, you can get Google Play on it for all the other apps. Limited if you want to keep updating the OS.

Fred/Seymour thanks for the input - Fred can't you just rotate the screen to landscape?

My daughter showed me how, by using my finger tip, to drag a whole Samsung phone screen down from the top to the bottom, thereby revealing another (or even more) open screens underneath. She said this was 'standard practice'.

Hmmm? Well, not for me it wasn't. But it is now.

I can now surf and have more open screens on as well, duly opening then with this finger drag trick as and when I need to refer to them.

It's a real cream sick trick. Innit.

Exec - and I thought I knew nothing! :-)

I recently showed my 27 year old how to close running apps on her Samsung - she hid her indignity well!!

Skinny,

Yes, but I still found it irritating.

Perhaps, I like holding the book.

Good luck.



PS,

My original idea was to download books I thought of reading for I was in the van, instead of carry cupboards full of them, because I am to lazy to give them away.

Why not, borrow one of a few days and try it out.

Hi, I'm running windows 8, can anyone recommend a good anti virus thats not too resource hungry?

Microsoft essentials is fine on W8/W8.1.

Thanks Skinny, it came with Norton which I'm still trying to uninstall. Keep getting pop ups saying my computer was once proteceted by them and to click to renew...