The iPad weighs about as much as a 400-page hardback, or it did when I posted the following back a while:
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Originally Posted by montsnmags
Just for interest's sake, I remember posting this a little over a year ago:
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Originally Posted by montsnmags
I don't know if this helps at all, but I just took three pbooks - a normal paperback, a trade paperback, and a hardback - each of about 400 pages, and weighed them upstairs on the kitchen scales. They came out as follows:
Paperback - 225g
Trade Paperback - 515g
Hardback - 680g
Sorry if it's no help. I just got curious, and thought I better share. 
Cheers,
Marc |
Intersting coincidence that the Hardback weighs exactly the same as the wifi iPad. Not that it counts for any difference for most probably. I personally don't find the iPad heavy, and its shape feels to me more comfortable, less awkward, than your average hardback, or the average pbook for that matter. I thought I'd read in landscape, but turns out I prefer portrait.
Mind you, saying this, particularly about the weight, I come from an Irex Iliad, with big leather folder, and so my only point of ereader comparison is fairly similar in weight and less (for me) comfortable. Your mileage, as they say, may vary, and, it appears, does.
Cheers,
Marc |
As mentioned, I have no problems with the weight of the iPad as a reader, and spend long hours in bed with it. But I had no real problems with a hardback either. But perhaps the hardback analogy gives you a closer sense of whether you'd think its weight acceptable.
Cheers,
Marc