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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
I don't know, i think most people buying an iPad buy if for totally something else than reading. Unless you're talking pdf, a reader will to the job better than any tablet. People how want to do some serious reading will get e-readers. Or already have one.
Plus, people using an iPad are more likely to go iBook than kindle apps.
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While most people buy an iPad for more than just reading, most readers I know who bought an iPad
after already owning another reader have put that other reader on the shelf. Obviously we're not finding that "a reader will do the job better." I rarely pick up my Kindle now except to make sure the battery isn't dead from neglect, yet I was one who swore I'd never use the iPad for reading. My sister-in-law, who travels two weeks out of every month and carried a Kindle for the last year dumped her K2 for an iPad after reading just one chapter on one. This is a woman who reads a MINIMUM of three books a week, all on the iPad. Most iPad owners I know who never had another reader (including my husband, who hated ebooks) now read on their iPads. And every one of them has the Kindle app, in part because the iBookstore has next to nothing in the way of content and is virtually unsearchable. I personally hate the iBooks app and have never bought a book in it.
No, it's not primarily a reader, but the fact remains that it's a damn good one for the most part.