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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9792004" data-attributes="member: 725"><p>I'm a tablet fanboy! Before that it was PDAs and those where not good with PDFs. But one of the folks in my group just prefers physical books, so they buy them themselves. I just buy the Foundry VTT (digital) version that we all can use (we currently mostly play online as one is on the other side of the world).</p><p></p><p>What you could do is look at a cheap older tablet like an older iPad, one that's out of support for a while. I'm seeing refurbished 5th gen 32GB iPads for €59. Get one, make sure it can't access the Internet (for security sake), get the old version of GoodReader and load on the older PDFs. Get one of those cases that you use to make it toddler proof and use it as the 'physical book' at the table.</p><p></p><p>That saves your very expensive personal tablet from the barbarians... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> And you'll always have it available for anyone to use with the full library of appropriate PDFs on it. Sure, only one person can use it at a time, but so can folks with a physical book.</p><p></p><p>I want to use those cheap refurbished tablets for a home 'smart' table for RPGs, board and miniature games. As well as for home automation (they are essentially very good, cheap touch screens).</p><p></p><p>/offtopic</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 9792004, member: 725"] I'm a tablet fanboy! Before that it was PDAs and those where not good with PDFs. But one of the folks in my group just prefers physical books, so they buy them themselves. I just buy the Foundry VTT (digital) version that we all can use (we currently mostly play online as one is on the other side of the world). What you could do is look at a cheap older tablet like an older iPad, one that's out of support for a while. I'm seeing refurbished 5th gen 32GB iPads for €59. Get one, make sure it can't access the Internet (for security sake), get the old version of GoodReader and load on the older PDFs. Get one of those cases that you use to make it toddler proof and use it as the 'physical book' at the table. That saves your very expensive personal tablet from the barbarians... ;) And you'll always have it available for anyone to use with the full library of appropriate PDFs on it. Sure, only one person can use it at a time, but so can folks with a physical book. I want to use those cheap refurbished tablets for a home 'smart' table for RPGs, board and miniature games. As well as for home automation (they are essentially very good, cheap touch screens). /offtopic [/QUOTE]
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