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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6093461" data-attributes="member: 8835">Welcome to enworld.  I hope you stick around and participate in the RPG discussions as well.  You're in a sub-forum for casual chat about tech here, so if you don't get a solid answer, there are better tech forums.  But most of us are techies, so you'll get something.I hear good things about the Samsung Galaxy tablets and the Google tablets.  You can't go wrong with a Google tablet, which will have the best support for new Android versions.I like my ipad, but can appreciate that it's pricey.  A Google Nexus 7 is about $250, smaller and works really well from what I hear from folks who have one.Using my Ipad for reading forums works pretty good.  Androids can do that too.  Book reading software works fine, and there's a Kindle reader and Sony reader app for Android and iOS, so you can access the main player's stores.Getting internet from your smartphone is called Tethering.  Good to know when buying it.  I have a mobile hotspot instead, and that works just fine.I find that I seldom need internet while moving about on a tablet.  The smartphone is better suited for that.  The tablet tends to get used online when I am stationary, and thus likely in range of wifi (like at my house, starbucks, etc).</blockquote>