Best tablet for reading PDF magazines?

[Doomer]

I bought a Color Nook specifically to read mags and it was a dismal failure. Way way too slow. So I'm looking for a tablet suitable for this task. I really don't care about other capabilities, all I want is something that zooms in and out and turns pages reasonably fast.

Thanks

 

[Crono]

For reading books (Nook, Kindle, Google Books, PDFs) I like my Nexus 7 a lot. It's pretty responsive. Don't know if you want a larger tablet, but if a 7" one fits for you, it's hard to choose another one.

The Nook HD+ is hard to argue with at $130 for a 9" tablet, though, and if you root/flash it, it should be fast enough.
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Don't let the inexpensive price or Nook name throw you off, as the newer hardware plus using Android Jelly Bean (4.1 and up) really makes a big difference versus older stuff like the Nook Color and equivalent tablets.

If price isn't a factor, I would consider the new retina iPad Mini or the iPad Air.

 

[Cerb]

2nded. It's not as fast as some other SoCs available, but is fine for color reading. I haven't used the Nook Color, but just by specs, they're a world apart (800MHz A8 v. 1500MHz A9s, DDR (200MHz?) v. DDR2 (466MHz?), different GPU generations, etc.; and then Android 2.2 v. 4.1+, when 2.3+ was an OMGWTF performance upgrade, regardless of device).

 

[Johnny4]

i would recommend the ipad if you read a lot of magazines/comics + ebooks.

 

[s44]

Nook HD+...

or wait for the Nexus 10v2

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

There isn't a real good Android PDF reader even now. It seems to lag like hell. So I'll give the nod to the iPad here.

 

[s44]

There isn't a real good Android PDF reader even now.

Wrong.

Repligo > all

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Wrong.

Repligo > all

That may be the best one for Android. When I tried earlier this year on my N10 it seemed to lag for a few PDFs. Granted they were image heavy, but seemed to load much better on my mom's iPad 2. It wasn't a fair comparison given the resolution difference, but I still can't see it slowing down to a crawl on an iPad 4 or Air.

 

[Zaap]

I really don't care about other capabilities, all I want is something that zooms in and out and turns pages reasonably fast.

For your stated needs a Nook HD+ will work fine. Ofcourse spending 4 to 5x as much just for a reader I woukd hope has some obvious advantage.

I find choice of pdf reader greatly depends on the source pdf. Right now I'm finding nothing comes close to bkazing through the pdf files I use like Perfect Reader with the pdf plugin. Smokes everything else including Repligo. But then thats probably due to my source files. Test a bunch of pdf readers with the exact type of magazine files you'll be reading most.

 

[Joe1987]

Try a NookHD+ before you buy it if you can.

 

[Puddle Jumper]

That may be the best one for Android. When I tried earlier this year on my N10 it seemed to lag for a few PDFs. Granted they were image heavy, but seemed to load much better on my mom's iPad 2. It wasn't a fair comparison given the resolution difference, but I still can't see it slowing down to a crawl on an iPad 4 or Air.

ezPDF has performed as well for me as anything I have tried for iOS