P1na: My long trips are several month long. As much as I love reading, I can't carry enough books with me, and I'd rather carry as few devices as I can.
Well, given that you have an Android phone, you can carry as many books with you as you want, more or less. I've nearly stopped reading paper books altogether. Of course, you'll need to acquire digital versions of the books you want, and sadly ebooks are often quite expensive. Still, having 200 digital books in your pocket is certainly more practical than lugging around 200 paper books.
ET3D: The problem with Avadon is that text is very small. Even on my Nexus 7 it's hard to read. The Humble app said it's not supported with the Nexus 7, but it let me download it, and it works fine.
Yes, I play Spacechem on my phone as well, even though that is also meant for tablets.
Generally with Android games, "tablet-only" means "the GUI is too small to work properly on anything smaller than a tablet". It's not that there's actually any incompatibility.
I think a lot of tablet games
could be made more phone-friendly, but most of them seem to be straight ports of games from other platforms. Making Android-specific changes to the games could make keeping them up to date more troublesome than the developer wants.