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Originally Posted by leebase
I'm not saying the iPad _IS_ better, but that that there are points in favor of each. Depending on one's own needs and preferences, one device or the other will be the optimal choice...
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Wholeheartedly agree; it's not necessarily an 'either/or' choice. I've had dedicated e-ink readers since they were available, but for me, the benefits of e-ink never cancelled out the overall clunkiness of the devices and once the Kindle App was available I did most of my reading on an iPhone - which in turn has largely been replaced by my iPad. But I've just come back from a couple of weeks holiday and in some conditions (e.g. bright shade) the iPad didn't fare too well - not impossible to use, just grey text on a pale-grey background - a bit like e-ink in less than ideal lighting, to be honest... I found my old Cybook to be better in these brighter conditions, and clunkiness aside, I was surprised how much I didn't hate reading on a small e-ink device again.
So having sworn I'd never buy another e-ink reader, I'll probably pick up a WiFi-only Kindle when they're available, just for use where the screen makes sense. The price-drop helps; a hundred quid may not exactly be loose change, but it's not expensive either, and having all your Kindle books available
and synched across all the devices has considerable appeal.
Actually, I wish Amazon would go one step further and produce a WiFi-only Kindle with no keyboard - I can buy books via the Kindle App on a host of other, more responsive devices; all I'd want from the keyboardless-Kindle is a 'sync now' option in a menu somewhere (maybe not even that) and a way of managing which books in my Amazon 'library' are synced. If this enabled Amazon to reduce the price further still, then so much the better for eBook readers everywhere.
So yes, dragging myself back OT, I'd say the NYT Kindle obit was a little previous.
Cheers, Pete