Thanks for that, man. My research has indicated I should consider nothing less than 16 gig for storage, 1 or 2 gigs for ram (though they tell me that the memory, oddly, is not as important as the storage?) and yeah, a 10 inch screen seems best, as I want something larger to read my books on than my Samsung Galaxy S5. It may not be possible on my budget, and I'm not that bothered that I'd raise the budget by much, as it's only a whim, a possibility. I'll keep looking. Thanks.

np m8

If you're planning on using it for music then yeah, 16gb should be OK but it'll be a bit of a squeeze.

Keep an eye on eBay, you'll get a 16gb Nexus 10 for £100 or less. 32gb might be just over.

btw I'm mentioning Nexi because that's what I've always used, there are probably good models from Samsung and the like too.

You might want to look into Amazon Fire Tablet. I just got one recently.

Fire HD 10 Tablet, 10.1" HD Display, Wi-Fi, 16 GB

but I definitely think this model is better since you get more storage space and it's cheaper than the 10 inch model.
All-New Fire HD 8 Tablet, 8" HD Display, Wi-Fi, 32 GB


I had a Nexus 7 2013 edition but that was way expensive for what it was and kind of a waste of money for my first tablet.

Also storage isn't that big of an issue if you just utilize the amazon services they offer and you use their cloud storage.

Thanks DJ. I have a Fire HD which I use to read books to my sister, but once they upgraded the firmware it became very clunky and counter-intuitive to use. I also think certain Android apps have a hard time working on it - Spotify doesn't run at all - so I would probably look more at a Windows based one. If I decide to get one at all.

I've never tried using Spotify on it. I just go through the Amazon music streaming service that they have. I also mainly use mines to watch Prime shows on so I haven't noticed the problems with certain apps.

This was probably a stupid thing to think, but for some reason I was considering it like a laptop, thinking I could, for instance, plug USB and external drives into it for, say, copying stuff I've written, watching videos or listening to music. I expect for that I'd need a Windows-based one, but even if I got that, can I actually do that? Is this how tablets work, or have I got it all wrong?

You can do that with a Surface but you will definitely have to spend more for more functionality.

Yeah, with a Surface I might as well get a laptop. They're ridiculously expensive for a tablet. So no other Windows-based tablets would allow me to connect wirelessly to my PC and access the files there?

You can use cloud storage.

Not for the terabytes of files I have! ;)
Anyway the services I have tried have either taken forever to load a few files or tell me my files are not there, or shut down and disappear, or any other host of annoyances that makes me think, in terms of any sort of decently-sized storage ("5 gig free"? Really? :laughing:) I say **** the cloud.