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Originally Posted by oggelbe2007
I guess if the weight of the device doesn’t bother you, or the screen glare which forces you inside doesn’t bother you, or if you don’t mind the long recharge times, or you like greasy finger prints on your screen, and you like buying from a single bookstore. Then you have found your PERFECT reading device. However, you could have bought an old Fujitsu tablet off Ebay with those same features for $100 (with a free bumper case). Plus you could annotate and sync your PDF’s along with many other things your iPad can’t handled. 
Pull the wool over your own eyes - the iPad is not a reader. |
Sorry, but the iPad is a very good reader. I have the kindle software on it, so I can synch up between my dx and my iPad, and I can also easily buy from the kindle store and download from my bookshelf there. And I have several programs that let me set up a server on my pc or Mac and download books wirelessly. If I really was bothered by the inability to access the iPad filesystem and copy books over directly, I would just jailbreak it like I did my iPod touch.
The iPad is a great little device, so is the kindle dx. Just do not try Internet browsing on the dx because it really sucks for that.
You will see many ipads being sold, because this is the first time anyone has developed a really good tablet device. My guess is there won't be much competition for the iPad until android based tablets come out. Windows sucks so bad and requires so much hardware to run well- and even when you have decent hardware it sucks. Take a look at the HP Slate, which several reviewers called an ugly baby.....