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Good tablet for kids for Plex?

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I’m looking for a tablet that I can buy for my kids, so they can watch Plex (connected via a hot spot to my phone) while we’re on long drives.

I don’t need any bells and whistles, nor anything hugely expensive, as they won’t be using them that often.

Does anybody have any suggestions? I was thinking of fire tablets but I’m not sure how well Plex would run.

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TheAmishMan@lemmy.world
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Id say firetab. They are cheap, they’re gonna be on sale in a week or two during prime day. Cost a fraction of what an ipad does. I use one for reading comics and occasionally watching stuff on it. Works great for that purpose

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Awesome thanks. Any suggestions on what fire tab? I was thinking either 8 or 10, is the HD worth it?

What do you use to read comics? I use chunky on iOS.

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I use comicrack, I have the fire10HD. I think its great. For Comicrack it takes a little bit of getting used to, but once you have it going I promise you’ll love it, especially if you have a large library. I have like 8000+ comics, so much easier to read. Theres a pretty good workflow someone made on the comicrack subreddit. Note - comicrack isnt available on the play store, but the apk is on the subreddit

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We bought two FireHD 8 Kids, great case, charging over USB-C and the ability to put a MicroSD card. Considering how cheap MicroSD cards are, it made sense to pick a 128GB for each and download as many movies through Plex as we could into it.

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