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Flash has been slowly dying for years. Adobe is pushing developers away from it in favor of other tools that accomplish the same things with open standards, that don't contain security vulnerabilities, that won't eat your laptop's battery. Large companies (CBS, for example) are slow to change, however. Google knows this, and worked with Adobe in 2010 to build a sandboxed version of flash into Chrome. It's robust enough to display most flash content like streaming video, and doesn't require that Adobe Flash is actually installed. Even when Adobe Flash is installed, I don't believe it's used by Chrome unless you force it. With all of the recent Flash vulnerabilities that were actively exploited, the information that Adobe released about the issues always mentioned IE an Firefox by name, but not Chrome. So even if you don't want to use Chrome, my suggestion would be to uninstall Flash and continue using your favorite browser. For occasionally viewing content that requires Flash, use Chrome. There's a gotcha though. Flash really is on its last legs. Google has helped people view Flash content in the most secure way possible for the past 6 years while developers transition away from Flash at a glacial pace, but they've said recently that they're going to start phasing it out. Apparently, Chrome will start blocking all flash content except for on the top 10 websites that require it, and allow people to manually whitelist additional sites. Eventually, all sites will have flash blocked by default, but I assume they'll make it fairly easy to unblock for a particular site or your current session. http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/15/11679394/chrome-to-block-flash-later-2016 EDIT: As for PDF content, I believe Firefox, Chrome, and IE all now are able to render most PDF files in-browser without a plugin.

Originally I bought a Nook, but it eventually became impossible to get library books on it, so I bought a Kindle which works fine both with library books and Amazon. Bookbub has a lot more Amazon books than Nook or other devices