Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.

I’m thinking about buying one of those Amazon Echo or Google Home speakers as a gift for my partner at Christmas. My worry is that it might be fun at first but then you stop using it. How have other readers got on with them? And which is best, the Amazon or the Google one?

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