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Funny I found the iPad sucked as a reader, not because the reading experience was bad, but because the library organization was abysmal at best.
It's fine if you only have a hundred or so books on it, but once you put a couple thousand it is unusable because
--pdfs and epubs are stored separately. What is the point of that? I have some series where I have some of the books in epub and some in pdf. Now with iBooks that series is always in two different places.
--There is no decent browse feature. The only way to browse is to scroll down through all your books. This gets old when there are 2500 books. My PRS-600 has the alphabet down the side of the reader, so I can choose where to browse from.
--You can't browse collections by just collection name. You are stuck browsing through your 2000+ books even in collection view. The books are just ordered by collection, but you're still wandering about the 2500+ books in collection alphabet order.
--Separately but still important is that putting books on the iPad was a royal PITA, involving first sending the books to iTunes then syncing to the iPad.
I like reading on the tablet screen, especially as I do a lot of reading at night and prefer a backlit screen and the light off. I also loved how perfectly the iPad displayed my pdfs. I just couldn't deal with the poorly organized library and not being able to browse my books. I pick which book to read next by browsing either my individual books randomly or the series names randomly. This is too painful with the iPad.
-Marcy
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