Kindle

[granny grump]

Looking for a Kindle that can also be used as a 'tablet/notebook' Does any one have any recommendations please?

[bednobs]

you probably need a tablet that can also be used as a kindle (which is practically all of them as you can download the kindle reading app

[granny grump]

Thank you bednobs

[barry1010]

Depending what you want to do on the tablet an Amazon Fire might suit, cheap and cheerful, made by Amazon.

[rowanwitch]

Kindle fire s are basic tablets for social media, googling type things but a lot of apps are not supported for example you can't use all the functions of Ww online or the doctor doctor all to access hospital appointments. Doesn't recognise a lot of links., I haven't found a way to use it in a notebook style. On the plus side they are really simple to use and cheap with good battery life. They do gobble up memory so if you go down the kindle route get the biggest memory you can, and pay the extra for no ads, it doesn't mean it blocks are on websites but you don't have to watch ads to play games and use apps.

[rowanwitch]

I have kindle fire I am on my third one, but I use a kindle paperwhite e reader for books, far far better, just like a book page and kinder on your eyes

[bednobs]

i agree with rowan - i much prefer having both and use the kindle for purely reading. If you arent going to do much reading, a tablet is ok. f you do a lot, an ereader would be better

[barry1010]

Just to expand, ereaders are excellent for reading ebooks. They are small and light enough to fit in a pocket, work very well in bright sunlight and the battery lasts a very long time between charges. They have a special mono display.
Add in tablet/notebook features and you lose the advantages of owning an ereader. It is simply a tablet.

I suggested a Fire tablet and they are perfect for Web browsing, emails and simple games. Hopeless for anything demanding such as fast action games. Be aware the storage isn't great.
Many people love them. Any cheap tablet will run ebooks. Think of weight and size before buying. Pop along to Currys and compare ereaders to tablets if you can

[barry1010]

I have a Kindle ereader and a Kobo. I prefer the Kobo. I get most of my ebooks from the public librarues, so no charge

[Buenchico]

The Amazon Fire 7 would seem to be obvious candidate here.

The Amazon Fire 7 starts from just £59.99. For that price you get an ad-supported model with 16 GB of storage. (The ads only appear on the lock screen though and don't intrude upon your actual use of the tablet). You can get rid of the ads altogether by paying a tenner more and/or you can upgrade the storage to 32 GB for a tenner too.

Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

[barry1010]

To avoid confusion Amazon stopped calling their tablets Kindle Fire years ago, now they are just called Fire and Kindle is only used for ereaders

[bednobs]

on the kobo barry, how do you turn the page? i have a kindle voyage which sadly is no longer made - you do a presson the side for page turn (not a button, but some kind of capacitive thing) - unfortunately it's old now so the battery life is not great

[barry1010]

I just tap the bottom of the screen to turn the page, same as with the Kindle. I much preferred the physical buttons on my Sony

[pastafreak]

I have an older Amazon Fire 7....I hate it. Slow, draggy, when I had to use it as a replacement for a few days I found it extremely frustrating to use. It would just grind to a halt. Luckily I only bought it as a "just in case" android tablet. Otherwise I would have thrown it out of the window by now.
Newer models might be better...this one was bought about 3 and a half years ago.

[rowanwitch]

32gb, not worth it my 32gb fire 7 ( back up kindle) is just about ok for Google and facebook,most of my games won't play on it at all and on this site it frequently gives me an inadequate memory alert when I am typing answers to questions., this is one time I would respectfully suggest 64 but really 128 gb, my fire 8hd is 64 gb . And it struggles with relatively simple games if they have a lot of background animations, ( playrix games like township seem the worse And the game help people have told me K fires don't have adequate operating memory.) All though I gather that's not the same as storage. The camera isn't great either. The My next tablet won't be another fire.

[granny grump]

Thank you all for your help - a bit to mull over

[granny grump]

Thank you all for your help I can't imagine why an answer to a straightforward innocuous question would be removed

[barry1010]

Probably spam, but I didn't see the post

[bednobs]

Yes, spam