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Old 01-28-2011, 02:25 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by jbcohen View Post
In the real world I am a network adminsitrator and as such we IT people typically hate Apple for one reason - They are proprietary - in other words you are locked into Apple for everything. If you like being forced to pay a lot more for books then by all means go ahead Apple makes a great product.
In the real world I am a software developer and have been a network admin with nearly two decades of experience. The truth about this is more nuanced that this paragraph implies.

Where eBooks are concerned the iPad is as universal a device as you can get without running a full OS stack. I haven't bought a single book from Apple - their selection just isn't there. But the Kindle application works just fine. So does GoodReader. So does Stanza.

That's to say nothing of all the O'Reilly epubs and Apress PDFs I've bought over the last year or two.

Still, buying an iPad for the sole purpose of reading books is overkill when baseline Kindle will do just as well for less money.
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