21-30k 7-8 inch android tablet recommendations for reading comics and e-books, ocasionally games

TheNawab

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What's up folks. Hope y'all are having a good day.

I am a pretty avid reader (chronically addicted, basically) and I currently own a slew of devices to support my reading habits. Apart from printed versions, most of my e-books are read on a Kindle I own or on my PC and the rest of them I read on my phone whenever I am travelling. I started my reading habits with comics and naturally, I am still heavily invested in reading comics, manga and other comic formats from around the globe. I hoard a lot of them locally because I despise modern apps, and I specifically use Mihon on Android to read them. This is the use case for which I am looking for a tablet currently.

My plan is to slowly ditch the Kindle and reading on my phone and move to a single Android tablet which can serve as both my e-books and comics reader. The reason for this is convenience and hence I am looking for a smaller tablet, not 10 inch ones which are in trend currently. The main purpose of this is for handheld comfort, and eye comfort. Reading uncompressed comics, gigabytes in size, usually takes a bit of power, so I am searching for a pretty powerful tablet which might also be used to occasionally host a couple of hours of Stardew Valley sesh.

I've looked into color e-ink displays as well in the market, but they seem redundant and worse for the price they go for, and I much rather have a small tablet with full-fledged Android capability than a stunted device. I already use the e-ink mode in modern Android on my phone and that will suffice when I am not on the adaptive brightness for comics specifically. Furthermore, I am not in favor of iPads because storage management and app support on iOS is a mess and I need to frequently manage, organize and backup my hoard of data.

Budget is not of concern as I am still pondering over the thought of buying it and will probably invest into the device in a couple of months.

Thanks.

Devices I currently own:

Kindle 2nd Gen (E-books)
Honor x9b (Comics, Manga)


Three months of reading addiction (this is only East Asian comics, lmao)
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Just wondering why 8-inch? I used to love the 8inch one too, but now, I cannot go below 10 because of the screen real-estate and my eyes getting old.

But outside the iPad mini there are almost no good 8inchers. If you could manage a slightly larger devices, then the lenovo legion tab is one heck of a device. If you don't need cellular connectivity, the tablet with two USB C ports is great.

But fair warning, lenovo is shifty with software updates. Also, the pen works well on the legion (I only use tabs with pen input).
 
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soulweaver said:
Just wondering why 8-inch? I used to love the 8inch one too, but now, I cannot go below 10 because of the screen real-estate and my eyes getting old.

But outside the iPad mini there are almost no good 8inchers. If you could manage a slightly larger devices, then the lenovo legion tab is one heck of a device. If you don't need cellular connectivity, the tablet with two USB C ports is great.

But fair warning, lenovo is shifty with software updates. Also, the pen works well on the legion (I only use tabs with pen input).
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TheNawab said:
The main purpose of this is for handheld comfort, and eye comfort.
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Mainly handheld and reading comfort. My dad owns a POCO Pad, and it is hilariously uncomfortable to manage on your hand. Think of it this way, I will be shifting over from a Kindle which is the gold standard for reading comfort even after so many years of development in smartphones and tablets. I would really like a smaller tablet that is light and comfortable to read on.
 
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The new Lenovo legion tab seems like the perfect fit here. It is 8.8 inch, is plenty powerful with the 8+ gen 1, has a micro sd card slot, 2 usb 3.1 gen 2 ports. It comes with a IPS display running at 144hz and packs a 6500 mAh battery. It is a bit costly though at 33.8k and only has a wifi varient.

There are two more Lenovo tablets, one 8 inch and the other one 9 inch. But they are much worse specwise.
 
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I used to have a Lenovo Tab M8 some time back which was usable with a 1080p screen, but the micro usb and Dimensity processor was kind of a let down. If you get a new one with USB-C and a decent processor it should be fine.
 
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