Hey, Gwen. Were you referring to a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 or a Galaxy Note 10.1? If you were, then you are talking about Android tablets, and there's no shortage of free apps for them. For word processors, you should look at OfficeSuite, Kingsoft and QuickOffice.

And, with the use of an OTG or micro-USB adapter, it will allow the connection of keyboards and other USB devices to the tablet. But if your "ergonomic keyboard" has the round cable plug, there are USB adapters for them, but even so, it's hit-and-miss with the round-plug ones - you'll have to experiment a bit. Or you can get a bluetooth keyboard, as Fletch suggested. Or you can get the ginormous tablets that are available now. The largest I've seen on the net are 15-inch Android tablets. (For comparison, the iPad's screen is a little smaller than 10 inches, while the iPad Mini has an 8-inch one)

But if you were referring to the Samsung eReader e101, or any of the other Samsung eReaders, then I'm afraid you're out of luck - these are purpose-built eReaders - no apps for them, nor any ports to connect keyboards or any other devices. And they have no bluetooth connectivity, as far as I know. But at least they can play music and audiobooks, too.

Hey, Fletch. Yes, connecting bluetooth keyboards to an iPad is easy, Apple has one of the snazziest wireless keyboards around, after all. But the point of a tablet (or at least one of them) is to use them AS a tablet. Connecting them to a keyboard would have just made them into laptops. Just IMHO, that is. :-)

Hey, Deni. I appreciate your point of view about tablets, but It's my feeling that what is needed is a paradigm shift. Typing and doodling on a flat surface that is also your display is a big jump from typing on a keyboard, and I think this will never be an easy shift.

It was a big jump from typewriter-and-paper-and-dictionary-and-rubber-eraser to keyboard-and-screen-and-wordprocessor, and there were many, many, many people who doubted the usability of microcomputers as wordprocessors then. My dad was on of them. He (and all the others) said the tactile feel of typewriters, the solid nature of paper, the direct interaction, and the physical security it gave would always trump electronic words on a CRT. But as more and more became willing to change their paradigm from keyboard to display, technology kept up, improving on how users interacted, how data was secured. Eventually, writing with a computer became so ubiquitous that the sale of typewriters went down so much that they became all but extinct.

But you know this, already, I'm sure.

I suspect that, to the up-and-coming generation of technology users, we sound the same as how my dad sounded like to me then. And for whatever shortcomings the current tablet paradigm has, technology is catching up to the users' needs, in the same way that it did when everyone was adjusting to the keyboard paradigm a few generations ago. I guess, for tablets, we are roughly at the equivalent time when the IBM PC-AT was introduced. And we are just waiting for something as game-changing as the GUI for tablets to become the platform-of-choice.

In the meantime, laptop sales are on the decline while tablet sales have been going up for a while now. Tablets have been having a 50-78% year-on-year growth since 2011/2012, depending on which publication you read. Here's one of them: http://www.maclife.com/article/news/tablet_sales_projected_o...

But numbers don't lie - tablet sales have indeed surpassed laptop sales last year. And it is projected to surpass combined laptop-desktop sales by 2015.

The writing is on the wall, I think.

But, as they say, the proof is in the pudding. There is a small handful of mainstream writers now who write their stuff exclusively on tablets. I am sure you can google them. And they are growing as better and better apps roll off the appstores, and tablets become more ubiquitous.

And even closer to home - as you read here, Rhona has written one of her chapters on an iPad (with a few hiccups, I admit). And I, for one, have been writing my posts exclusively on my iPad since about 2011 (including this one). My first tablet-written story here was Counterfeit Crusader, followed by a few others, including five installments of the... technologically-inaccurate story, Shepherd Moon.

Anyway... just an opinion lol

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