Have you looked into the Nexus 7 or Nexus 10? I imagine there are plenty of apps on Google Play that can read/render PDFs properly.

16GB N7 is $200

Personally, I'd get a regular Kindle. Black and white only, but they are useful, light, well suited for that sort of thing, below100 bucks, and the battery lasts for two months per charge

Another recommendation for Moon Reader+ Pro. I use a Nexus 7 and it's a well-rounded tablet for its price.

While I know nothing about the model you show here there have been some good recommendations so far. Your point is well taken and since my wife bought me a Nook Tablet last year I have been using that. I can even jump on the internet and look up something while playing the game.

That being said - If I had to do it from scratch I would buy an Android Tablet and stay away from the proprietary (Nook, Google...) tablets. You will be so much more flexible in the apps you can use and all will be able to read numerous file types. They will be much more flexible in how you use them.

PS - Don't tell my wife that. ;-)

No offense but Android = Google, and for their Nexus line, those are updated as Google releases new versions of Android.

B&N and Amazon (among others) forked Android for their own little ecosystems, but are not proprietary in the same sense that Apples' OSX and Microsofts' Windows are.

Google financially backed and later bought Android Inc. but the OS is open source and as such is not tied to the more expensive Nexus line of Google Tablets. The versions used by B&N (Nook) and Amazon (Kindle) are highly proprietary.

Holy shit, first link on google even: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200203720

It's GPL, they have to comply with the license. Enjoy.

Yey, thanks. I always figured that it is closed source.

Indeed, I know. However, the core OS (Android) is open source. The parts they use to lock you into their ecosystem are not. Hence like I said, not 'as proprietary' as OSX/WIndows, which are completely closed-source and proprietary.

Also, I referred the OP to the Nexus line of tablets because they are running stock Android, are pretty cheap for their specs and capabilities, and will get updates as soon as they come out (if that's a thing you are looking for). I am not really sure what you got out of my recommendation of the Nexus tablets, but I have already argued my point with the Android OS vs Amazon/B&N's Android.

The Android SDK just got locked down with its new license, there's already a fork of the previous version, no idea how long this will last or of the nitty gritty details, but a locked SDK is probably a bad thing.