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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm afraid I don't understand you. You say "even with the brightness all the way up, the glare was just too distracting". If you turn the brightness up, then certainly the glare will be worse, because the screen is emitting more light. You should read with the screen at the minimum brightness level that's comfortable for you to read with.
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Well, in the stores, with the brightness all the way down I can't see a thing. With it all the way up, it is manageable, but frickin' bright!
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Originally Posted by VictoriaP
I think the iPad beats any e-reader currently on the market for PDFs of all sorts, hands down. Heavy and bulky compared to a 6" Kindle? Of course it is. But my 6" Kindle can't handle text based PDFs at all without either shrinking the text to microscopic proportions or forcing me to use their new stupid pan and zoom feature over and over on every page. What a useless "feature" that turned out to be.
Take the same PDF, put it on an iPad in GoodReader. Use the crop function to get rid of the excess margins across the entire document with one click--what a freaking novel idea, are you listening, Amazon? Put the iPad on my lap and read, or use a stand. Presto--iPad is no longer heavy or bulky, and the PDF is actually readable. Graphics, of course, are gorgeous. And I can still zoom in if I need to see something up close.
As for glare, I hate it. But as others have said, the glare in a store is going to be far worse than what you experience at home. PowerSupport makes an anti glare shield that appears excellent in photos I've seen, though I haven't used it myself. I normally don't like screen protectors, but I have considered that one. Right now, I simply change the angle I'm holding the iPad at until I've found a position with less glare, and that works fine.
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Unfortunately, this is primarily a work device, and my work has very similar lighting to the store environments I have been in that sell the iPads.
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Originally Posted by mgmueller
I guess, the lighting in the store is way more distracting than in you living room or office.
I'm okay with the glare/reflection, but I wouldn't say it's close to or even identical with e-Ink.
And I wouldn't recommend iPad for technical documents.
In my opinion, iPad is perfect for comics or magazines and acceptable for casual reads. But it's too heavy and bulky and the battery won't last long enough, to use it "professionally".
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What would you recommend for technical documents?