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[Tone Dumb Greg]

Tablets post 5 have USB mic support, but it is said to be pretty limited. Better drivers are available. Think I'll try it.

[penn]

There might easily be 30 or more video clips with associated audio files on an out.
Doing a TOTM recording - who knows.

If the time and date is set reasonably correctly on both machines, the video and audio recordings should start at around the same time. If they're all in a folder ordered by date and time the video/audio pair should be next to each other.

Also... Gina said something about "high quality" AAC, and that's another reason I'd use the H2N - it records full quality uncompressed PCM.
A fundamental rule of recording is to always start at the highest quality it's possible to achieve - it's easy to lose quality, but impossible to get it back. It's better to stay uncompressed and compress for the upload, than to compress/decompress/compress again, there will be slight losses and possible artefacts.

It's true, you're not recording the London Symphony Orchestra for a high resolution commercial Blue-ray recording, but I don't see any point in compromising the audio quality when you don't need to. 
Steve

[Tone Dumb Greg]

...It's true, you're not recording the London Symphony Orchestra for a high resolution commercial Blue-ray recording, but I don't see any point in compromising the audio quality when you don't need to. 
Steve

It only costs a few quid for the hardware (about £6.50). I'm not looking for high end results, just a bit more control over them than I have at the moment. Also, I'm curious to see if it will work. I think it's worth a punt

[Edit: Bought an adaptor cable. Actually cost £2.95 free postage, from Amazon. See if it works with USB microphone now. If not there's over 300 pieces of feedback saying it works fine as a USB key reader. Worth it just for that.]

[penn]

Yup, sounds like a worthwhile experiment, best of luck!
Steve

[Tone Dumb Greg]

This little beast looks very useful

https://www.musicroom.com/product-detail/product1131695/variant1131695/irig-pre-xlr-microphone-interface-for-phone-and-tablet/?gclid=CjwKCAjw-NXPBRB4EiwAVNRLKp-0bNRazt-6NAc1tj5A1rFct946IBYYw9M3VUd7BHMIlBczDDkWwhoCtpwQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

[JD]

It only costs a few quid for the hardware (about £6.50). I'm not looking for high end results, just a bit more control over them than I have at the moment. Also, I'm curious to see if it will work. I think it's worth a punt

[Edit: Bought an adaptor cable. Actually cost £2.95 free postage, from Amazon. See if it works with USB microphone now. If not there's over 300 pieces of feedback saying it works fine as a USB key reader. Worth it just for that.]

Have I missed whether your tablet is Android or Win10? (Lenovo make both). You made a comment about "Tablets post 5" so I'm assuming Android. My experience of using an external USB memory device on Android 5.0.1 is that it doesn't work if you have a micro USB card in the tablet. I discovered this when trying to back up a camera card.

There is a free app for Android called Open Camera which claims to have good support for USB microphones. I think, like most other posters here, I would record as a WAV file on the H2 and dub the audio afterwards.

Or there is Padcaster. Luckily for your bank balance it's only for iPad.

[Tone Dumb Greg]

Have I missed whether your tablet is Android or Win10?... My experience of using an external USB memory device on Android 5.0.1 is that it doesn't work if you have a micro USB card in the tablet. I discovered this when trying to back up a camera card.

There is a free app for Android called Open Camera which claims to have good support for USB microphones. I think, like most other posters here, I would record as a WAV file on the H2 and dub the audio afterwards.

It's Android 7.
Thanks for the tips about the USB card and Open Camera. I came across other suggestions of using that.
Dubbing in afterwards is, of course, the fall back position (it's what I already do). Just fancied seeing if this would work for reasons already explained Also, I like a challenge and access to USB storage etc. looks useful in numerous other ways.