Daily Reading (02 May 2015)

[nanila]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

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[rmc28]

I've been meaning to post to my own blog about it, because it has made me very happy for not much money :-)

It is a hudl2, cheap from Tesco, even cheaper if you have a bunch of clubcard vouchers (which I did). It runs the same version of Android as my phone, the huge win is comics, and Netflix/Amazon/iPlayer are much nicer to watch.

The killer feature for me is that it comes with multi-user settings, so I can set up accounts for the children and control which apps they can access. When I let them use it, they can watch iPlayer or play Angry Birds etc without me fretting that they will muck up my ebook collection or read that smutty fanfic I had open in Chrome. Charles is really pleased and says Angry Birds Epic in particular works better on the bigger screen.

It's not as comfy for reading text as my phone: I need both hands to hold it, or to rest it on something. Economist & FT look nicer on it, as do ebooks, and comics are amazing. I am buying digital comics from now on.

Typing is maybe less annoying than on the phone, but not by much. It's the same keyboard but the keys are bigger so I have fewer fat-finger moments.

[nanila]

Thanks for this, it's very helpful. You've definitely sold me on it. I didn't want to replace my Kindle because I've been boycotting Amazon for a couple of years now, and this sounds like a great alternative.