How to get photos onto Venue 8

Just got mine as well.  You have several options, here is one.  Look for the OneDrive app on your tablet.  My pro came with it preinstalled.  Open the app and sign up for a free account if an account was not already set up for you during your original tablet set up.  OneDrive gives you free mega storage for file sharing and syncing between devices.  Then go to your desktop, open your browser and go to onedrive site and log on.  (there is also a destop app as well).  Upload your files to onedrive or put them into your onedrive share/sync folder. Go back to your tablet onedrive app and refresh the view there and you will see your pics on hhour tablet.  Read the onedrive help to learn the difference between simple sharing and syncing files between both devices.  It's a nice service in that you can share your pics with others by folders or by single pics just by sending a url to them.

Sorry, I meant to add  to add the followiing;

If you mean that you do not have a wifi network with your desktop, you will be able to see your pics on you tablet, after you later connect to a public wifi network with your tablet.  After doing so, you can copy the pics from the one drive share/sync folder onto another folder on your tablet.  At that point you will have a persistent non-synced copy of your pics on your tablet.

Thank you very much for the advice. I was wondering, though, if there's any way to transfer photos from my desktop to either an external hard drive or a flash drive and then from one of those devices to my tablet. Is that a possibility? I would like to be able to do this from home instead of having to drive somewhere where I can hook up to wifi every time I want to add a photo. The whole reason I bought a tablet was to put photos on it, so I'd really like to make this as easy as possible.

Darlene, yes you can.  i have an iPhone myself (5). You can put the onedrive app onto your phone or access uour onedrive account through your phone's browser.  Depending on your phone and or plan, you could also connect perhaps tie your tablet to your phone's internet connection by setting up a personal hotspot there as well, but I have not tried that myself.  Also, your iphone has probably got an iCloud app available, which would be similar to OneDrive in functionality, but for myself, OneDrive has worked so well that I have never made use of iCloud.

You're losing me. I have an iPhone. So I could download a one drive app to my phone?

Sorry, but I'm not tech-savvy at all.

If you have a slot to use a microSD card on your PC, that would be another option since your tablet can read files from that as well.  Another option would be to pair your computer via bletooth ro your tablet.  Still another would be to pass files through the microUSB port, but I would be hesitant to try that because you may wind up damaging it with frequent use.  I really think you ought to consider the onedrive option though for all round flexibility.  You can put a onedrive app on your phone and sync files there as well.  With your phone in the loop also, you could bluetooth a pic from your tablet to your phone to keep everything synced. 

That sounds much easier! I guess before I give up on this tablet I'll give that a try. Thank you very much for that suggestion.

OK, one more stupid question. Once I get my photos onto the flash drive and connect the flash drive to the tablet, how do I move them to the tablet? Can I drag them into a folder, or is there a way to copy and paste them into the folder? Can one right-click on a tablet? Please be explicit in how to do this.

Awesome! Thank you so much. I just got back from Best Buy, where I ordered the flash drive (they didn't have it in stock).