[grogenaut]

My backpacks have these real small pockets for notepads still. Kindle just goes in there. On really long trips (Australia for a month) I bring all 3. Well actually I also brought my Switch, NC headphones, monster battery, and work laptop (loaner 13" mb) as well as personal. I had to pay the extra fee on carry ons on Jetstar (and it did get weighed).

Really tablet is just crappy movie watcher or smaller webpage reader. Having all this was good since on that trip my SSD de-soldered itself from my motherboard on my Laptop, forcing me to use USB Sticks and turn it into a $3200 chrome book.

I basically equate the kindle to a charging or backup set of wireless earbuds in weight.