What kind of tablet do I want? Point-and-shoot equivalent.

Point-and-shoot is all I want out of a camera; likewise a TV, a radio, a car, a stove, a washing machine: just give me two knobs, one for station and one for volume, and forget the airplane-cockpit options and controls.

As for electronic tablets, I know nothing about them and want roughly the same thing in terms of performance and complexity.

I do not have (or want) a smartphone and do not want an electronic device to be an important element of my life. I just want to be able to take it on a trip and (a) send and receive e-mail, (b) Google things, including maps, and (c) read Kindle books.

What sort of tablet would you recommend for your great-grandmother, who still uses pencils and sharpens them on a hand-cranked rotary pencil sharpener? That’s probably the one for me.

Suggestions?

Tags as I wrote them: tablets, electronic devices, computers, internet.