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Subject: Re: Keeping up with the family


Author:
Leo Kerr
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Date Posted: 19:48:38 10/10/13 Thu
In reply to: Wes 's message, "Re: Keeping up with the family" on 19:21:53 10/10/13 Thu


>If you are just getting into one of these things,
>you'd better have a kid available to show you some of
>the ins and outs, which are not necessarily intuitive.
>Slick, perhaps, but not necessarily obvious.
>
>-- Wes

Ain't that the truth. I've more-or-less messed around with the Nook-HD (quasi-tablet) and the Asus Transformer (don't ask what number.) I still have no idea how they work, apart from -- "badly" isn't quite right. I'm sure they're fine if you know what you're doing.

The scary thing is, my father just got the 2nd gen Nexus 7 (which I still think of as maybe Rutger Haur's younger brother, or maybe Sean Penn?) He keeps asking me questions about it; I'm clearly too old (40+) to be a computer geek any more..

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Doug
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Date Posted: 21:40:46 10/16/13 Wed

>
I've got a Kindle -- mostly to support Wes -- don't
use it much to read since I prefer epubs for various reasons.

I have 2 tablets, a desktop and a laptop. The laptop is mostly for travelling with the camera for backing up my pentax digital (12 mb raw photos take a lot of space).

I have 2 Samsung Tablets for most of my other work - 1 7 inch to take with me and a 10 inch for around the house. I always have a book (tablet) with me and the 7 inch will fit in a pocket if I don't have my medical bag with me - I carry an epipen and other medical supplies with me due to allergies and a severe allergy to perfume.

I would not be without my 7 inch but the 10 inch does a lot of things more conveniently. I do like it when I'm travelling for work with a blue tooth keyboard that mates with the 7 inch -- makes the 7 inch convenient for taking notes. I don't think I would want to give a 10 inch to some one who had trouble holding a book -- they are heavy. BTW - I got the 7 inch first and the 10 inch later. I still prefer the 7 inch for most things.

The marketing guys at work are making good use of Ipads for taking handwritten notes and transferring them to their desktops. I have Played around with handwriting on the android but not to the same degree -- as an accountant I don't have the same use.

I have taken a raw book Wes has sent me and used a free tool on the Android to read the book with out any conversion. I have also used another tool to convert the same book to a rough epub - not one I would want to use for publishing but definitely a readable one. I can see as the operating system evolves, and it is evolving quickly, that the tablet might be able to replace most of the functions of the laptop but I don't think I will ever be doing any heavy duty spreadsheet work on one.

I did buy a "bookstore" locked tablet and returned it -- their resticted view of the world - not allowing you to use competing book readers, restricting the apps you could use etc did not allow me to do what I need to be able to do to support Wes -- I needed to run as many book apps as possible. And this is just my view of their products - they are probably just fine for most people.

Doug


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