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Originally Posted by Nate the great
I doubt that there will ever be more iPads than iPhones, so I don't see how it could be the dominant reading device. And no matter how many there are, it will never be the dominant _reading_ device. It's not all that great for reading.
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Nate, there may always be more iPhones than iPads - hard to quibble with that - but that doesn't necessarily transate into a more "dominant reading device" than the iPad, does it? I know a lot of folk like to read on the IPod Touch and the iPhone, but I bet those same folk are way outnumbered by people like me who just find that screen size too small for reading. I never dreamed of using my iPod Touch for reading - and could never - based on the screen size.
If you're including dead tree books, you're right - iPad will
never dominate as a reading device. If you're just talking gizmos, however, I expect the iPad to indeed dominate - if only for a while - if only until something better comes along (which is a certainty - not a question of if - just when).
And to say "its not all that great for reading" is your opinion. I wasn't crazy about it as a reader at first (weight, backlighting, margins in iBooks, other quibbles, large and small). After just a short time owning it, I always look for the eBook first, I've ditched my poor Sony, I can breeze through books without a hiccup or complaint - and I
love the iPad for reading!
How much of a chance have you given the iPad (I'm assuming from your statement you've definitely read a book or two with an iPad)?
-- Rique